Design and Initial Testing of a Single-Motor-Driven Spatial Pectoral Fin Mechanism

Low, Kin Huat; Prabu, S.; Yang, Jie; Zhang, Yonghua

doi:10.1109/icma.2007.4303594

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“…Fig. 1 illustrates some relevant robotic fishes developed and tested [2,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] . The biomimetic undulating fin mechanisms were developed by using various actuators, such as motors [5,9,25,34] , parallel bellows actuator [18] , SMA [35,36] , and IPMC [22,37] .…”

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Parametric Study of an Underwater Finned Propulsor Inspired by Bluespotted Ray

Zhang

Low

2012

J Bionic Eng

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The performance of bluespotted rays was emulated in the design of a bioinspired underwater propulsor in the present work. First, the movement of a live bluespotted ray was captured for the swimming mode and useful information to the biomimetic mechanism design. By virtue of the modular and reconfigurable design concept, an undulatory fin propulsion prototype was developed. With a proper experimental set-up, orthogonal experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of various fin design parameters on the propulsion speed, thrust, and power of the fish robot. The controllable fin parameters include frequency, amplitude, wavelength, fin shape, and undulatory mode. The significance of these parameters was also determined by using the variance analysis. The results demonstrate that the designed propulsor, imitating bluespotted rays with large expanded undulatory fins, is able to propel itself by changing various kinematic parameters.

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“…Fig.1Swimming modes of fishes using MPF propulsion (diagrams of prototypes are taken from Refs [2,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]…”

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Parametric Study of an Underwater Finned Propulsor Inspired by Bluespotted Ray

Zhang

Low

2012

J Bionic Eng

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Attitude control for a pectoral fin actuated bio-inspired robotic fish

Barbera

Deng

2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Conceptual design and recovery stroke mode of a mechanical pectoral fin

Liang

Wang

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2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

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This work presents a conceptual mechanical design of pectoral fin apparatus and an innovation of its recovery stroke mode, for underwater biomimetic robot. Motion of pectoral fin apparatus was detailed analyzed, simulating natural fish's 3 kinds motion manners of pectoral fin, and the function of driven pole length was deduced, which could be used for actuators driving. Based on the conceptual design, a new recovery stroke mode was proposed. By contrast of the projected area perpendicular to the oncoming flow, between mechanical pectoral fin and fish's, the fact was found, that recovery stroke mode of the pectoral fin apparatus has less projected area than fish. That may result in less fluid drag during recovery stroke.

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Design and Initial Testing of a Single-Motor-Driven Spatial Pectoral Fin Mechanism

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Parametric Study of an Underwater Finned Propulsor Inspired by Bluespotted Ray

Parametric Study of an Underwater Finned Propulsor Inspired by Bluespotted Ray

Attitude control for a pectoral fin actuated bio-inspired robotic fish

Conceptual design and recovery stroke mode of a mechanical pectoral fin

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