Designing future underwater vehicles: Principles and mechanisms of the weakly electric fish

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 651-659

  MacIver, Malcolm A ^a   Fontaine, Ebraheem ^b   Burdick, Joel W ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Autonomous underwater vehicles; Backward swimming; Biologically inspired robotics; Biorobotics; Electric fish; Electrosensory; Gymnotiform; Knifefish; Locomotion; Maneuverability; Remotely operated vehicles; Ribbon fin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SHIP PROPULSION;

ACTIVE SENSING; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ROBOTICS; BIOROBOTICS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTROSENSORY; GYMNOTIFORM; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; KNIFEFISH; LOCOMOTION; RIBBON FIN;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 9244227085     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2004.833210     Document Type: Article

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