3D hydrodynamic analysis of a biomimetic robot fish

Author

Guan, Zhenying ; Gao, Weimin ; Gu, Nong ; Nahavandi, Saeid

Author_Institution

Centre for Intell. Syst. Res., Deakin Univ., Geelong, VIC, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

793

Lastpage

798

Abstract

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamic simulation of a biomimetic robot fish. Fluent and user-defined function (UDF) is used to define the movement of the robot fish and the Dynamic Mesh is used to mimic the fish swimming in water. Hydrodynamic analysis is done in this paper too. The aim of this study is to get comparative data about hydrodynamic properties of those guidelines to improve the design, remote control and flexibility of the underwater robot fish.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomimetics; computational fluid dynamics; hydrodynamics; marine engineering; mesh generation; mobile robots; 3D hydrodynamic analysis; biomimetic robot fish; computational fluid dynamic; dynamic mesh; fish swimming; flexibility; remote control; underwater robot fish; user defined function; Biological system modeling; Computational fluid dynamics; Force; Hydrodynamics; Marine animals; Robot kinematics; Dynamic mesh; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); hydrodynamic analysis; robot fish; user-defined function (UDF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), 2010 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7814-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2010.5707359

Filename

5707359