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Wire-Driven Robot Fish

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In this chapter, a class of wire-driven robot fish is presented. It comprises of a streamlined body and a flapping tail, which is designed based on the biomimetic wire-driven mechanism (BWDM). The BWDM mimics not only the fish body skeletal structure but also the muscle arrangement. As a result, the wire-driven robot fish can well replicate various fish flapping motion with minimum number of actuators and thus, has simple structure and excellent propulsion efficiency. Three wire-driven robot fish are presented. The first one is driven by one motor and swims in oscillatory form; the second one is driven by two motors and swims in undulatory form; and the third one can mimic both shark swim and dolphin swim.

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  2. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Zheng Li

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Kamal Youcef-Toumi

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado

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Li, Z., Du, R. (2015). Wire-Driven Robot Fish. In: Du, R., Li, Z., Youcef-Toumi, K., Valdivia y Alvarado, P. (eds) Robot Fish. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46870-8_3

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