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Fish-inspired robots: design, sensing, actuation, and autonomy—a review of research
Abstract
Underwater robot designs inspired by the behavior, physiology, and anatomy of fishes can provide enhanced maneuverability, stealth, and energy efficiency. Over the last two decades, robotics researchers have developed and reported a large variety of fish-inspired robot designs. The purpose of this review is to report different types of fish-inspired robot designs based upon their intended locomotion patterns. We present a detailed comparison of various design features like sensing, actuation, autonomy, waterproofing, and morphological structure of fish-inspired robots reported in the past decade. We believe that by studying the existing robots, future designers will be able to create new designs by adopting features from the successful robots. The review also summarizes the open research issues that need to be taken up for the further advancement of the field and also for the deployment of fish-inspired robots in practice.
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- Authors
- Raj, A., & Thakur, A.
- Venue
- Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2016-04-13
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 031001
- ISSN
- 1748-3182 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-3190
- OpenAlex
- W2340642587
- Cited by
- 288
- References
- 77
- FWCI
- 18.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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