Against the flow: A Braitenberg controller for a fish robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4210-4215

  Salumäe, Taavi ^a   Rañó, Iñaki ^b   Akanyeti, Otar ^c   Kruusmaa, Maarja ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; FISH; ROBOTICS;

AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH ROBOTS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; UNIFORM FLOW;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84864482753     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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