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Abstract(s)
This paper presents the development of a fish-like robot called
Bro-Fish. Bro-Fish aims to be an educational toy dedicated to
teaching mechanics, programming and the physics of floating
objects to youngsters. The underlying intention is to awaken the
interest of children for technology, especially biomimetic
(biologically inspired) approaches, in order to promote
sustainability and raise the level of ecological awareness. The
main focus of this project was to create a robot with carangiform
locomotion and controllable swimming, providing the opportunity
to customize parts and experiment with the physics of floating
objects. Therefore, the locomotion principles of fishes and
mechanisms developed in related projects were analysed. Inspired
by this background knowledge, a prototype was designed and
implemented. The main achievement is the new tail mechanism
that propels the robot. The tail resembles the undulation motion of
fish bodies and is actuated in an innovative way, triggered by an
elegant movement of a rotating helicoidal. First experimental tests
revealed the potential of the proposed methodology to effectively
generate forward propulsion.
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Keywords
Biomimetic locomotion Educational toy Propulsion mechanism swimming robot
Citation
Alicia Moreno Ishii; Magdalena Heibeck; Marcin Blazejewski; Rasmus Nybjörk; Abel José Duarte; Benedita Malheiro; Maria Cristina Ribeiro; Fernando José Ferreira; Manuel Silva; Paulo Ferreira; Pedro Guedes. Design and Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Swimming Robot - An EPS@ISEP 2014 Spring Project, Trabalho apresentado em Third International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, In Proceedings of TEEM'15 - Third International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, Porto, 2015.
Publisher
ACM