Robot Fish: Bio-inspired Fishlike Underwater Robots

✍ Scribed by Ruxu Du, Zheng Li, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. It gathers contributions by the leading researchers in the area. Readers will find the book very useful for designing and building robot fish, not only in theory but also in practice. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of robotics, ocean engineering and related areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-24
Fish Locomotion: Biology and Robotics of Body and Fin-Based Movements....Pages 25-49
Wire-Driven Robot Fish....Pages 51-92
Design and Control of a Multi-joint Robotic Fish....Pages 93-117
Research on Robotic Fish Propelled by Oscillating Pectoral Fins....Pages 119-160
Soft-Body Robot Fish....Pages 161-191
iSplash: Realizing Fast Carangiform Swimming to Outperform a Real Fish....Pages 193-218
IPMC-Actuated Robotic Fish....Pages 219-253
Macro-Fiber Composite Actuated Piezoelectric Robotic Fish....Pages 255-283
A Multifunctional Underwater Biomimetic Microrobot....Pages 285-313
Multiple Autonomous Robotic Fish Collaboration....Pages 315-357
Fish–Robot Interactions: Robot Fish in Animal Behavioral Studies....Pages 359-377

✦ Subjects

Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Engineering Design