Main description:

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. It gathers contributions by the leading researchers in the area. Readers will find the book very useful for designing and building robot fish, not only in theory but also in practice. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of robotics, ocean engineering and related areas.                                                 

Feature:

The first book available on robot fish

Covers all aspects of the subject, from design, modeling and optimization, to control, autonomous control, and applications

Offers in-depth and practical knowledge on designing, constructing and controlling robot fish                                                                                      

Back cover:

This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. It gathers contributions by the leading researchers in the area. Readers will find the book very useful for designing and building robot fish, not only in theory but also in practice. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of robotics, ocean engineering and related areas.                                                                        

Contents:

Introduction.- Fish locomotion: biology and robotics of body and fin-based movements.- Wire-driven robot fish.- Design and Control of a Multi-Joint Robot Fish.- Research on the Robotic Fish Propelled by Oscillating Pectoral Fins.- Soft-body robot fish.- iSplash: Realizing Fast Carangiform Swimming to Outperform a Real Fish.- IPMC-Actuated Robotic Fish.- Macro-fiber composite actuated piezoelectric robotic fish.- A Multifunctional Underwater Microrobot for Mother-Son Underwater Robot Systems.- Multiple Autonomous Robotic Fish Collaboration.- Fish-Robot Interactions: Robot Fish in Animal Behavioral Studies.