Swimming Robots Have Scaling Laws, Too

Youngsu Cha; Jeffrey Laut; Paul Phamduy; Maurizio Porfiri

doi:10.1109/TMECH.2015.2442759

Swimming Robots Have Scaling Laws, Too

Youngsu Cha, Jeffrey Laut, Paul Phamduy, Maurizio Porfiri

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

Aquatic animals of vastly different size show a simple relationship between swimming speed and body kinematics. Swimming robots, whose morphology and gaits are inspired by those animals, are not an exception.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	7120150
Pages (from-to)	598-600
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2015.2442759
State	Published - Feb 2016

Keywords

Biologically-inspired robots
biomimetics
marine robotics
smart actuators

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Swimming Robots Have Scaling Laws, Too

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