Swimming performance of a biomimetic compliant fish-like robot

被引:100
作者
Epps, Brenden P. [1 ]
Valdivia y Alvarado, Pablo [1 ]
Youcef-Toumi, Kamal [1 ]
Techet, Alexandra H. [1 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Dept Mech Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
OSCILLATING FOILS; WAKE STRUCTURE; SLENDER FISH; HYDRODYNAMICS; BODY; LOCOMOTION; PROPULSION; DESIGN; WAVES;
D O I
10.1007/s00348-009-0684-8
中图分类号
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号
0802 ;
摘要
Digital particle image velocimetry and fluorescent dye visualization are used to characterize the performance of fish-like swimming robots. During nominal swimming, these robots produce a 'V'-shaped double wake, with two reverse-Karman streets in the far wake. The Reynolds number based on swimming speed and body length is approximately 7500, and the Strouhal number based on flapping frequency, flapping amplitude, and swimming speed is 0.86. It is found that swimming speed scales with the strength and geometry of a composite wake, which is constructed by freezing each vortex at the location of its centroid at the time of shedding. Specifically, we find that swimming speed scales linearly with vortex circulation. Also, swimming speed scales linearly with flapping frequency and the width of the composite wake. The thrust produced by the swimming robot is estimated using a simple vortex dynamics model, and we find satisfactory agreement between this estimate and measurements made during static load tests.
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页码:927 / 939
页数:13
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