Review of marine animals and bioinspired robotic vehicles: Classifications and characteristics

Zimmerman, S.; Abdelkefi, A.

doi:10.1016/j.paerosci.2017.07.005

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“…98 The problem with this model is that it only focuses on plunge-diving from air to water but does not consider the scenario of taking off from water to air. 100…”

Section: Biomimetic Design Inspired By Flying Creaturesmentioning

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Design of flying robots inspired by the evolution of avian flight

Shahid

Zhao

Godefroit

2019

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C:

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Bionic design of flying robots based on natural models has become a hot topic in mechanical engineering. The research going on in this direction considers that there is a lot to learn from flying animals such as birds, insects, and bats, from walking on the ground to getting enough power to be airborne. To get an efficient design of flying robots, we must better understand the origin of flight. This paper focuses on the review of avian flight and its possible application in the design of flying robots. Different hypotheses have been proposed to tackle the origin and evolution of avian flight from cursorial dinosaurs to modern birds, including the famous ground-up and tree-down theories. During the past decade, discoveries of feathered and winged dinosaurs from Liaoning, China, strongly supported the theory that birds originated from theropod dinosaurs. The transition from running on the ground to maneuver in the sky involves various stages of flights and plumages, which can be now illustrated by several representative paravian dinosaurs from Liaoning. Those fossils provide good research bases for the design of flying robots. Microraptor is one of those important transitional stages in the evolution of flight. This paravian dinosaur is characterized by the presence of pennaceous feathers along both its arms and its legs, but how it could actually fly is still debated. It is of course difficult to evaluate the flight performances of an extinct animal, but aerodynamics of a four-wing robot can be developed to get some knowledge about its flying capacity. Fossil and living flying animals with different morphologies, stability, and control mechanism can be a source of inspiration for designing socially relevant products.

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“…98 The problem with this model is that it only focuses on plunge-diving from air to water but does not consider the scenario of taking off from water to air. 100…”

Section: Biomimetic Design Inspired By Flying Creaturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of flying robots inspired by the evolution of avian flight

Shahid

Zhao

Godefroit

2019

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C:

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“…When ample lift and speed needed for pushing off from water and into flight is obtained by webbed foot hydroplaning, rapidly wings flapping will join in [24]- [26]. To provide extra forces for UAVs, imitation of the exact movement of cormorants' webbed foot and its potent power produced in a similar direction needs to be applied in the design of this biomimetic propulsion mechanism [27], [28]. With wide distribution in both marine and freshwater environments, cormorants are large water birds characterized by ''totipalmate'' webbed (all four toes joined by webs) feet [29].…”

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CFD Based Investigation on the Hydroplaning Mechanism of a Cormorant’s Webbed Foot Propulsion

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Aquatic unmanned aerial vehicles (AquaUAV) have aroused much attention from researchers, though no fully-featured aerial-aquatic UAV exists so far. The assistance of webbed foot hydroplaning can accomplish rapid takeoff of a cormorant. A significant impact force and moment can be generated due to the webbed foot propulsion in the water-to-air transition. However, the change law of force and moment experienced by the cormorant during takeoff has not been captured. Based on previous achievements in the biological investigation, we developed a biomimetic prototype with curve fitting model and parameter optimization to attain specific movements to imitate cormorant's hydroplaning strategy. The bionic webbed foot considers the elastic mechanics, and the forepart is regarded as flexible material for fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Dynamic process of rapid takeoff in the aspects of flow characteristics and mechanical properties can be estimated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in our proposed FSI model, which establishes a foundation for further applications in the design of the assisted propulsion system of aerialaquatic UAV. INDEX TERMS Biomimetics, computational biophysics, fluid dynamics, coupled mode analysis, military aircraft.

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“…Other studies have focused on biomimetic AUVs, which copy propulsion systems directly from the animal world [ 15 ]. However, the most common and extended propulsion system is through propellers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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New Vectorial Propulsion System and Trajectory Control Designs for Improved AUV Mission Autonomy

Masmitja

González

Galarza

et al. 2018

Sensors

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) are proving to be a promising platform design for multidisciplinary autonomous operability with a wide range of applications in marine ecology and geoscience. Here, two novel contributions towards increasing the autonomous navigation capability of a new AUV prototype (the Guanay II) as a mix between a propelled vehicle and a glider are presented. Firstly, a vectorial propulsion system has been designed to provide full vehicle maneuverability in both horizontal and vertical planes. Furthermore, two controllers have been designed, based on fuzzy controls, to provide the vehicle with autonomous navigation capabilities. Due to the decoupled system propriety, the controllers in the horizontal plane have been designed separately from the vertical plane. This class of non-linear controllers has been used to interpret linguistic laws into different zones of functionality. This method provided good performance, used as interpolation between different rules or linear controls. Both improvements have been validated through simulations and field tests, displaying good performance results. Finally, the conclusion of this work is that the Guanay II AUV has a solid controller to perform autonomous navigation and carry out vertical immersions.

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Review of marine animals and bioinspired robotic vehicles: Classifications and characteristics

Cited by 38 publications

References 34 publications

Design of flying robots inspired by the evolution of avian flight

Design of flying robots inspired by the evolution of avian flight

CFD Based Investigation on the Hydroplaning Mechanism of a Cormorant’s Webbed Foot Propulsion

New Vectorial Propulsion System and Trajectory Control Designs for Improved AUV Mission Autonomy

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