Fish and Robots Swimming Together in a Water Tunnel: Robot Color and Tail-Beat Frequency Influence Fish Behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Polverino, Giovanni ^a   Phamduy, Paul ^a   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; COLOR; FISH; FLOW RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NOTEMIGONUS CRYSOLEUCAS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; TAIL BEAT FREQUENCY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; COLOR; FISHES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TAIL; WATER;

EID: 84886411700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077589     Document Type: Article

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