Preface |
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1 Introduction |
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1.3 Organization of Chapters |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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2 Design and Validation of the Pectoral Fins |
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2.2 The Description of Fins |
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2.2.1 Propulsion by Undulation of Median or Pectoral Fins |
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30 | (1) |
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2.2.1.5 Diodontiform Mode |
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2.2.2 Propulsion by Oscillation of Median or Pectoral Fins |
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2.2.2.1 Tetraodontiform Mode |
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2.3 Employing Pectoral Fin as Locomotors |
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2.4 Optimum Design of Pectoral Fins |
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36 | (3) |
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2.5 Modeling the Pectoral Fins of Swimming Robot |
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39 | (2) |
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2.6 Hydrodynamic Force of Pectoral Fins |
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41 | (3) |
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2.7 Design of Pectoral Fins |
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44 | (2) |
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2.8 Validation of Pectoral Fins Design |
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2.8.1 The Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis |
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52 | (8) |
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2.8.3 Practical Experiments Result |
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3 Swimming Robot Design |
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3.2 Construction of the Swimming Robot |
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3.2.1 The Waterproof Body Part |
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3.3 Hydrodynamic Reactive Force and Moment Evaluation |
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3.5 Improvement of the Pectoral Fin Performance |
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3.6 Parameter Identification |
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3.7 Simulation and Experimental Results |
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3.7.1 The Effect of the Starting Angle |
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3.7.2 Power to Recovery Ratio Effect |
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3.8 Performance in Terms of Dimensionless Numbers |
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3.8.3 Amplitude to Length Ratio |
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4 Steering Process of Swimming Robot |
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4.2 Steering by a Caudal Fin in the Boxfish |
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4.2.2 Model, Caudal Peduncle and Caudal Fin Reconstruction |
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4.2.3 Specification of Environment Measurements |
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4.2.4 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations |
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4.2.5.1 Rigid tail model and turnable tail model: No caudal fin at tail angle theta of 0° |
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4.2.5.2 Rigid tail model and turnable tail model: Closed caudal fin and open caudal fin at tail angle theta of 0° |
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4.2.5.3 Turnable tail model: Closed caudal fin and open caudal fin at tail angles theta of 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° and 40° |
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4.2.5.4 Hydrodynamic forces on the body, caudal peduncle and caudal fin |
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4.2.6 Discussion and Conclusion |
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4.3 Steering by Pectoral Fin in Swimming Robot |
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4.3.2 Simulation and Experimental Results |
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4.3.2.1 Experimental setup |
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4.3.2.2 Experimental results |
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5 Diving Process of Swimming Robot |
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5.2 Diving System of Carangiform Swimming Robot |
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5.2.1 Design Procedure of the Swimming Robot |
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5.2.2 Mechanical Design of the Swimming Robot |
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150 | (4) |
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5.2.3 Propulsive Two-Link Tail Mechanism |
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5.2.4 CoG Control Mechanism Design |
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5.2.5 The Front View of Unit Design |
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5.2.6 Electronic System Design of the Swimming Robot |
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5.2.7 Experimental Results and Discussion |
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5.3 Diving System of Labriform Swimming Robot |
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5.3.1 Diving System of Swimming Robot |
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5.3.2 Modeling of Diving System |
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5.3.2.1 Swimming robot kinematic model |
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5.3.2.2 Swimming robot dynamic model |
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5.3.3 Simulation and Experimental Results |
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5.3.3.1 Simulation results |
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5.3.3.2 Practical experimental results |
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6 Conclusions |
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Index |
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