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Jiangtao Yu, Yunhai Ma, Shuo Wang, Zihe Xu, Xuanting Liu, Hubiao Wang, Hongyan Qi, Lijun Han and Jian Zhuang
This work proves the feasibility and effectiveness of biomimetic macroscopic surface modification method to reduce the draught force of potato digging shovels based on mole rat?s digits, which is also a reference and experience for the optimization and m...
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Kunlang Bu, Xiaobo Gong, Changli Yu and Fang Xie
Biomimetic aquatic robots are a promising solution for marine applications such as internal pipe inspection, beach safety, and animal observation because of their strong manoeuvrability and low environmental damage. As the application field of robots has...
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Panagiotis E. Koutsogiannakis, Evangelos S. Filippas and Kostas A. Belibassakis
A biomimetic semi-activated oscillating-foil device with multiple foils in a parallel configuration is studied for the extraction of marine renewable energy. For the present investigation, an unsteady boundary element method (BEM) is used for the simulat...
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Pawel Piskur
The aim of the paper is to present the parameters of new biomimetic folding fins measured using image processing. Tests were carried out for different types of folding biomimetic fins and compared to the most popular fins on the market. A noninvasive ima...
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Jimin Hwang, Neil Bose, Hung Duc Nguyen and Guy Williams
We introduce an adaptive sampling method that has been developed to support the Backseat Driver control architecture of the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Explorer autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The design is based on an acoustic detecti...
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Yonghui Cao, Yingzhuo Cao, Shumin Ma, Xinhao Li, Yilin Qu and Yong Cao
Currently, the bionic robotic fish is primarily devoted to the bionic appearance of fish and rarely involves the bionic swimming posture. However, biological studies have proved that fish have extraordinary swimming ability, so it is necessary to imitate...
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Rui Qiao, Guili Xu, Yuehua Cheng, Zhengyu Ye and Jinlong Huang
Large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formations are vulnerable to disintegration under electromagnetic interference and fire attacks. To address this issue, this work proposed a distributed formation method of UAVs based on the 3 × 3 magic square an...
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Changhong Liu, Jiawen Wen, Jinshan Huang, Weiren Lin, Bochun Wu, Ning Xie and Tao Zou
Underwater object detection is crucial in marine exploration, presenting a challenging problem in computer vision due to factors like light attenuation, scattering, and background interference. Existing underwater object detection models face challenges ...
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Kostas Belibassakis, John Prospathopoulos and Iro Malefaki
Flapping-foil thrusters are systems that operate at a substantially lower frequency compared with marine propellers and are characterized by a much smaller power concentration. These biomimetic devices are able to operate very efficiently, offering desir...
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Iro Malefaki and Kostas Belibassakis
Biomimetic flapping-foil thrusters can operate efficiently while offering desirable levels of thrust required for the propulsion of a small vessel or an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). These systems have been studied both as main propulsion devices ...
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Xu Yang, Yingsi Wu, Lihe Wang, Fei Liu, Xuan Zhao, Hongbin Bai, Wenxue Dong, Xiang Kong, Hengtong Hu, Wendong Zhong, Dezheng Xuan, Ao Yang and Yutao Ma
To address problems encountered in current potato harvesting machines, such as potato damage, poor adaptability, and low operational efficiency, a new towed potato picking and bagging machine (4UJ-180A) equipped with a soil-digging axis, flexible conveyi...
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Hao Chen, Weikun Li, Weicheng Cui, Ping Yang and Linke Chen
Biomimetic robotic fish systems have attracted huge attention due to the advantages of flexibility and adaptability. They are typically complex systems that involve many disciplines. The design of robotic fish is a multi-objective multidisciplinary desig...
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Qisong Zhou, Jianzhong Tang, Yong Nie, Zheng Chen and Long Qin
The cable-driven hyper-redundant snake-like manipulator (CHSM) inspired by the biomimetic structure of vertebrate muscles and tendons, which consists of numerous joint units connected adjacently driven by elastic materials with hyper-redundant DOF, perfo...
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Dimitra E. Anevlavi, Evangelos S. Filippas, Angeliki E. Karperaki and Kostas A. Belibassakis
Recent studies indicate that nature-inspired thrusters based on flexible oscillating foils show enhanced propulsive performance. However, understanding the underlying physics of the fluid?structure interaction (FSI) is essential to improve the efficiency...
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Evangelos S. Filippas, George P. Papadakis and Kostas A. Belibassakis
Flapping foils located beneath or to the side of the hull of the ship can be used as unsteady thrusters, augmenting ship propulsion in waves. The basic setup is composed of a horizontal wing, which undergoes an induced vertical motion due to the ship?s r...
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Wenxian Yang, Theodoros Alexandridis and Wenye Tian
Horizontal-axis axial flow tidal current turbine is regularly used to exploit the kinematic energy in tidal currents. However, the scaling up of tidal current turbine is very difficult. This is because strong tidal current only exists in the underwater r...
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