Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages
of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore …

One of the emerging themes of fish-inspired robotics is flexibility. Adding flexibility to the
body, joints, or fins of fish-inspired robots can significantly improve thrust and/or efficiency …

Elasticity has been linked to the remarkable propulsive efficiency of pulse-jet animals such
as the squid and jellyfish, but reports that quantify the underlying dynamics or demonstrate …

Mass manufactured, biologically inspired soft robots are needed for safe robot-animal
interactions. The key challenges are the design and manufacture of high-performance …

Undulatory swimming is the predominant form of locomotion in aquatic vertebrates. A myriad
of animals of different species and sizes oscillate their bodies to propel themselves in …

Fishes have learned how to achieve outstanding swimming performance through the
evolution of hundreds of millions of years, which can provide bio-inspiration for robotic fish …

Flexible slender structures are ubiquitous in biological systems and engineering
applications. Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) plays a key role in the dynamics of such …

In this study, a successful hybrid model is presented for the simulation of flow induced
vibrations. The novel Fluid-Structure Interaction framework relies on split-forcing Lattice …

The effect of hawkmoth-like flexibility on the aerodynamic hovering performance of wings at
a Reynolds number of 400 has been assessed by conducting fluid structure interaction …

Flexible tail fins are commonly found in undulatory swimmers which can propel freely in
omni-direction with flap**-wing-based propulsion. In this work, the hydrodynamic …