Undulatory swimming in sand: Experimental and simulation studies of a robotic sandfish

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 793-805

  Maladen, Ryan D ^a   Ding, Yang ^a   Umbanhowar, Paul B ^b   Goldman, Daniel I ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinspired; Limbless; Modeling; Sand; Subsurface; Swimming

Indexed keywords

AT-SPEED; BIO-INSPIRED; FORWARD SPEED; GRANULAR MEDIA; GRANULAR MEDIUM; LIMBLESS; LOW FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; PHYSICAL DEVICES; RIGID SURFACES; SIMULATION PREDICTION; SIMULATION STUDIES; SIMULATION TOOL; SINGLE PERIOD; SUBSURFACE; SWIMMING; TRAVELING WAVE; UNDULATORY SWIMMING; WAVE EFFICIENCY; WAVE SPEED;

EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; SPEED; TRIBOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80052214180     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364911402406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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