Aquatic robotics is making a critical transition to adapt and inspire more efficient systems
from nature. The result is the abandonment of inefficient propeller-based locomotion for a …

The swimming of aquatic animals and flying of insects and birds have fascinated physicists
and biologists for more than a century. In this regard, great efforts have been made to …

Numerical simulations are used to investigate the hydrodynamic benefits of body–fin and fin–
fin interactions in a fish model in carangiform swimming. The geometry and kinematics of the …

Recent studies have shown that by utilizing the interactions among median fins (the dorsal,
anal, and caudal fins), fishes can achieve higher propulsion performance at the caudal fin …

The manta is the largest marine organism to swim by dorsoventral oscillation (flapping) of
the pectoral fins. The manta has been considered to swim with a high efficiency stroke, but …

Through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a model manta ray body, the
hydrodynamic role of manta-like bioinspired flapping is investigated. The manta ray model …

Finlets are a series of small non-retractable fins common to scombrid fishes (mackerels,
bonitos and tunas), which are known for their high swimming speed. It is hypothesized that …

The effects of wing–body interaction (WBI) on aerodynamic performance and vortex
dynamics have been numerically investigated in the forward flight of cicadas. Flapping wing …

Current research on the hydrodynamics of manta ray robots is limited to the qualitative study
of pectoral fin performance; other aspects such as the hydrodynamics and motion simulation …

This paper presents a method to create fish-like robots with tensegrity systems and
describes a prototype modeled on the body shape of the rainbow trout with a length of 400 …