Projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51379193,51779233).
The Gymnarchus niloticus fish can swim in surging and heaving directions only with a long undulating ribbon fin while keeping its body along almost straight line.These features substantially inspire the design of unde...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61503008 and 51575005);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2015M570013)
A simplified model of the thrust force is proposed based on a caudal fin oscillation of an underwater bionic robot. The caudal fin oscillation is generalized by cen- tral pattern generators (CPGs). In this model, th...