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  • Biomimetics
  • Materials Science

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  • Underwater soft robotics faces challenges in balancing compliance with control and robustness.
  • Existing robotic fish often lack the adaptability and resilience needed for real-world environments.

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  • To introduce SpineWave, a hybrid soft-rigid robotic fish.
  • To demonstrate a novel approach to underwater locomotion using passive magnetic compliance and optimized control.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hybrid soft-rigid architecture with 3D-printed vertebrae and embedded magnets for passive compliance.
  • Employed hardware-in-the-loop efficient global optimization (EGO) to tune a central-pattern-generator (CPG) controller.
  • Tested SpineWave's performance across modular morphologies.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a 38% increase in cruising speed and a 35% reduction in turning radius.
  • Demonstrated 29% energy savings by exploiting vortex wakes.
  • Maintained stable body-wave propagation and impact tolerance.

Conclusions:

  • SpineWave is the first fish robot to achieve soft-like compliance and robustness using a rigid, magnetically coupled structure.
  • The combination of passive magnetic compliance and data-driven CPG optimization advances soft-robotic locomotion.
  • Presents a pressure-tolerant, modular platform for environmental monitoring and exploration.