Evolutionary design and experimental validation of a flexible caudal fin for robotic fish

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 325-332

  Clark, Anthony J ^a   Moore, Jared M ^a   Wang, Jianxun ^a   Tan, Xiaobo ^a   McKinley, Philip K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FISH; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS;

EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HILL CLIMBING ALGORITHMS; REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 84874750310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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