Design of a biomimetic fish caudal drive via Macro Fiber Composite

Author

Guan, Yuan-lin ; Xu, Zhi-wei ; Li, Hua-feng

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Mech. & Control of Mech. Struct., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

125

Abstract

According to the technology of the body-and-caudal fin drive, a novel design of biomimetic caudal drive is proposed in this paper. The drive is a two-layer laminated plate that is composed of Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) and a substrate of variable stiffness. When the material of the substrate is glass fiber epoxy reinforced composites, the biggest displacement of the terminal is 4mm in the air and 1.97mm under the water, and when the material is glass fiber composites of polyurethane, the biggest displacement is 2.39mm in the air. Therefore, the experiments verify the feasibility of the design and the significance of the substrate´s stiffness for the drive of the caudal fin.

Keywords

autonomous underwater vehicles; biomimetics; design engineering; drives; elasticity; glass fibre reinforced plastics; laminates; mobile robots; plates (structures); biomimetic fish; body-and-caudal fin drives; design; displacement; glass fiber epoxy reinforced composites; macro fiber composites; polyurethane; two-layer laminated plate; variable stiffness; Glass; Marine animals; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber sensors; Substrates; Biomimetic fish; Glass fiber composite; Laminated plate; MFC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications (SPAWDA), 2011 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1075-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPAWDA.2011.6167207

Filename

6167207