Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are playing an ever-growing role in modern
subocean operations, generating a demand for faster, more manoeuvrable designs capable …

A novel actuating material, which is lightweight, soft, and capable of generating large
flap** motion under electrical stimuli, is highly desirable to build energy-efficient and …

Electroactive Polymer Actuators as Arti cial Muscles Page 1 213 6 Electroactive Polymer
Actuators as Artificial Muscles Yoseph Bar-Cohen California Institute of Technology …

This paper presents a novel approach to modelling carangiform fish-like swimming motion
for multi-joint robotic fish so that they can obtain fish-like behaviours and mimic the body …

This paper presents a new prototype model of an underwater fish-like microrobot utilizing
ionic conducting polymer film (ICPF) actuator as the servo actuator to realize swimming …

We constructed a snake-like swimming robot using IPMC actuator, and verified swimming
motion based on numerical simulation and experiments. In applying periodic inputs with …

A perfluorinated cation-exchange membrane plated with noble metals was found to bend
with electric stimuli in water or a saline solution. The bent to anode is almost proportional to …

To realise fish-like swim patterns by a robotic system poses tremendous challenges. This
requires fully understanding of fish biomechanics and the way to mimic it. This paper …

This paper presents a novel mechatronics design for a 3D swimming robotic fish, namely
MT1 (Mechanical Tail) robotic fish. It has a novel tail structure which uses only one motor to …

Nature selection has made today's fish be beautiful swimmers with high efficiency and
perfect manoeuvre abilities. To realise fish-like propulsion and manoeuvring abilities by a …