Robot Fish: Bio-inspired Fishlike Underwater Robots

摘要

Nature has often provided inspiration to engineers and designers to develop new or enhanced systems. In the marine environment many fish exhibit characteristics or performances that exceed the current generation of manned or unmanned underwater vehicles, thus providing the potential to improve bio-inspired devices. In this book the editors bring together 12 chapters from a range of authors that provide a snapshot into current research and development in robotic fish. The book's objectives are to: 1) summarise the state of the art in design, build and control of robot fish; 2) analyse major obstacles for further development; and 3) point out future research and development directions. While it broadly succeeds in the first objective, a more rigorous focus on the closed-loop control of free-swimming robot fish and the transition from the laboratory to real world applications would have been desirable.