• DocumentCode
    2438929
  • Title

    Hydrodynamic optimization of a relative link lengths for a biomimetic robotic fish

  • Author

    Anton, Mart ; Listak, Madis

  • Author_Institution
    Centre of Biorobotics, Tallinn Univ. of Technol., Tallinn, Estonia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    20-23 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    530
  • Lastpage
    535
  • Abstract
    This paper focuses on the robotic fish body shape and mechanical design optimization problems. We show that our methodology will allow finding costs and benefits of having different number of links and the length of these links. We provide an algorithm of finding optimal lengths of links of robotic fish body. Also we discuss the benefits of having a continuous tail. Our approach is a mix of analytical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solution. We also illustrate our research with simulation results.
  • Keywords
    biomimetics; computational fluid dynamics; control system synthesis; hydrodynamics; marine systems; mobile robots; optimisation; CFD; biomimetic robotic fish; computational fluid dynamics; hydrodynamic optimization; mechanical design optimization; relative link lengths; Approximation methods; Computational fluid dynamics; Joints; Marine animals; Mathematical model; Robots; Biomimetic robotic fish; mechatronics; optimization of the mechanical design; underwater robotics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2011 15th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tallinn
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1158-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAR.2011.6088644
  • Filename
    6088644