As a novel biologically inspired underwater vehicle, a robotic manta ray (RoMan-II) has
been developed for potential marine applications. Manta ray can perform diversified …

Manoeuvrability is one of the essential keys in the development of improved autonomous
underwater vehicles for challenging missions. In the last years, more researches were …

Achieving agile steering motion without auxiliary forward velocity is difficult for autonomous
underwater vehicle (AUV) driven by rudders. Although installing vectored thrusters and more …

Present experimental investigation reports the flow and thermal behavior of
electromagnetically actuated circular orifice synthetic jet involving sinusoidal and square …

A new type of thrusting technology, loosely inspired by the locomotion of cephalopods, offers
promising low-speed maneuvering capabilities for a new generation of underwater vehicles …

The evolution of starting jet circulation, impulse and kinetic energy are derived in terms of
kinematics at the entrance boundary of a semi-infinite axisymmetric domain. This analysis is …

A new type of underwater thruster was designed to provide high-accuracy, low-speed
maneuvering to underwater robots. Located internal to the vehicle surface, these thrusters …

According to the latest trends in miniature consumer and military electronics, there is a need
for compact cooling solutions to meet performance requirements at compact volumes …

The utility of unmanned micro underwater vehicles (MUVs) is paramount for exploring
confined spaces, but their spatial agility is often impaired when maneuvers require burst …

State-of-the-art autonomous micro-robotic turtles suffer from various limitations, such as
power restrictions that minimize their deployment times. In this paper, an Ionic Polymer Metal …