Title :
A bio-inspired swimming robot
Author :
Zongyao Chen ; Xinghua Jia ; Riedel, Andrew ; Mingjun Zhang
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
fDate :
May 31 2014-June 7 2014
Abstract :
The bio-inspired materials and bio-inspired robotics laboratory at the University of Tennessee developed a swimming robot with a rigid body and flexible propellers inspired from the whirligig beetle. We improved the propulsion efficiency by identifying the optimal structure for the propellers and beating patterns to minimize the energy consumption for this swimming robot. In this video, we present the design, simulation, and experiment of the robot platform.
Keywords :
marine control; mobile robots; motion control; propellers; beating pattern; bio-inspired material; bio-inspired robotics laboratory; bio-inspired swimming robot; energy consumption; flexible propellers; propulsion efficiency; whirligig beetle; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Energy consumption; Propellers; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
DOI :
10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907221
