UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL LOCOMOTION USING BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS AND SOFT ROBOTICS
The current studies of fish-like aquatic propulsion are quite limited in their ability to control for physical determinates such as body shape, kinetic motions, flexural stiffness, skin surface scale and Mucus properties etc. Keeping one of these determinates constant while altering others in a controllable manner is impossible for the swimming live fishes. Bio-inspired robotic models offered the ability to manipulate and control individual physical determinate that affect the aquatic propulsive performance…