Towards an Esox lucius inspired multimodal robotic fish

Respiratory Exchange in Fresh-water Fish: Part VI. On Pike (Esox lucius).

Bio-inspired Robotic Fish with Multiple Fins

In order to improve the performance of AUVs in terms of efficiency and maneuverability, researchers have proposed biomimetic propulsion systems that swim using flapping fins rather than rotary propellers. This calls for the exploration of unique locomotion characteristics found in a variety of fish for use in underwater robots. (Sfakiotakis et. al., 1999) present a good review of fish swimming ...

Fish-Inspired Swimming Simulation and Robotic Implementation

This paper describes our efforts to develop a Digital Fish Simulator (DFS), particularly aiming at creating a controlled kinematic centered environment to further shed light on how to design and control artificial fish robots. Compared to a 3D simulator for autonomous robotic fish by Liu and Hu, an improved body wave equation capable of multimodal swimming motions is adopted in our simulator an...

Biologically Inspired Behaviour Design for Autonomous Robotic Fish

Behaviour-based approach plays a key role for mobile robots to operate safely in unknown or dynamically changing environments. We have developed a hybrid control architecture for our autonomous robotic fish that consists of three layers: cognitive, behaviour and swim pattern. In this paper, we describe some main design issues of the behaviour layer, which is the centre of the layered control ar...

Biologically Inspired Design of Autonomous Robotic Fish at Essex

Nature selection has made today’s fish be beautiful swimmers with high efficiency and perfect manoeuvre abilities. To realise fish-like propulsion and manoeuvring abilities by a robotic system is a very challenging task and requires a fully understanding of fish muscle structure, hydrodynamics and the way to mimic. This paper overviews our current robotic fish research at Essex, which is focuse...