Design and Experimental Study of a Pneumatic Bionic Stingray Undulatory Soft Robot

Songzi Guo, Jinhua Zhang, Yuhan Yang, Haiyan Cheng, Jun Hong

2020

Abstract

Underwater organisms have always been providing inspiration for the design and development of novel underwater propulsion and bionic robots. At present, stingray has been taken as a bionic object due to its stable motion and robust mobility. In this study, a stingray propelled by flexible pectoral fins was taken as a bionic object. Based on this, a new idea for the design of high-performance bionic underwater propulsor was proposed. An analysis was conducted regarding the design, fabrication and experiments of the bionic stingray wave propulsion soft robot based on pneumatic drive. As revealed by the experiments of propulsion performance, the influencing factors for average propulsion include varying frequencies, fin stiffness and the gaps between substrate and the fins. This is expected to provide guidance on our design of a stingray robot in respect of efficient mobility.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Guo S., Zhang J., Yang Y., Cheng H. and Hong J. (2020). Design and Experimental Study of a Pneumatic Bionic Stingray Undulatory Soft Robot.In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-442-8, pages 363-368. DOI: 10.5220/0008939703630368

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco20,
author={Songzi Guo and Jinhua Zhang and Yuhan Yang and Haiyan Cheng and Jun Hong},
title={Design and Experimental Study of a Pneumatic Bionic Stingray Undulatory Soft Robot},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2020},
pages={363-368},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008939703630368},
isbn={978-989-758-442-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Design and Experimental Study of a Pneumatic Bionic Stingray Undulatory Soft Robot
SN - 978-989-758-442-8
AU - Guo S.
AU - Zhang J.
AU - Yang Y.
AU - Cheng H.
AU - Hong J.
PY - 2020
SP - 363
EP - 368
DO - 10.5220/0008939703630368