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Fish robots can accurately mimic fish movement with just five segments. This new method identifies key bending points to create parsimonious robot models, revealing a universal undulatory pattern in fish swimming.

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  • Biomimetics
  • Robotics
  • Ichthyology

Background:

  • Fish locomotion relies on continuous body flexibility, contrasting with segmented fish robots.
  • Current fish robot designs often use an arbitrary number of segments, lacking optimization based on biological data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for automatically determining the minimum number of segments required for accurate fish robot modeling.
  • To analyze how fish morphology influences swimming kinematics and robot design.

Main Methods:

  • Identifying key bending points (joint positions) in fish bodies from kinematic data.
  • Developing a method to minimize the difference between actual fish and modeled robot bending kinematics.
  • Analyzing steady swimming kinematics of 10 diverse fish species.
Keywords:
carangiform swimmersfish robotsmulti-segment modelsteady swimmingundulatory kinematics

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