Backward swimming gaits for a carangiform robotic fish

摘要

This paper focuses on the gaits planning method of the backward swimming for unsymmetrical structure bio-inspired robotic fish. Based on the differences between the anguilliform mode and carangiform mode swimming, a method for searching gaits of backward swimming was proposed to plan the motion of the developed carangiform robotic fish. The body envelope of European eel’s backward swimming was mimicked according to the freely swimming model, which was proposed to analyze the propulsion produced by the undulation of the multi-link tail. Finally, simulations and experiments were conducted to demonstrate the gaits searching method for the bio-inspired carangiform robotic fish.