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Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Reconfigurable and Detachable Swimming Modules

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Santhosh Ravichandran,

Akhil B. Arackal,

Aniket S. Mazumdar,

Jaya Sai Kiran P.,

Prabhu RajagopalAuthors Info & Claims

AIR '17: Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Advances in Robotics

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3132446.3134875

Published: 28 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Maneuverability and propulsive efficiency are of much interest in autonomous underwater robots. In this paper, we present a novel underwater robot design with two reconfigurable and detachable swimming modules that would be capable of offering both maneuverability and propulsive efficiency. They are also capable of reconfiguring automatically to take two different orientations favoring reduced drag in the swimming direction. A key feature of this design is that the reconfigurability is achieved without additional actuators - helpful in the development of autonomous swarm robots with good maneuverability and efficiency.

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Liu LWang JGong HGuo JWang PWang ZHuang LYao CBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)ModBot: A Tangible and Modular Making Toolkit for Children to Create Underwater RobotsExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382907(1-8)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3382907

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AIR '17: Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Advances in Robotics

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DOI:10.1145/3132446

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Liu LWang JGong HGuo JWang PWang ZHuang LYao CBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)ModBot: A Tangible and Modular Making Toolkit for Children to Create Underwater RobotsExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382907(1-8)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3382907

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