Fishy Model

摘要

Computer analysis of swimming fish could inspire the design of robots or medical prosthetics. Researchers at the University of Maryland in College Park and at Tulane University in New Orleans have developed a computer model of a swimming fish that they believe may be the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion. The team created a simulation of the lamprey, a primitive vertebrate whose nervous system is being used as a model by Avis Cohen, a biology professor at the University of Maryland, and colleagues to develop prosthetic devices for people with spinal cord injuries. These types of prosthetics are called neuroprosthetics.