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Long Wang, Jianfei Xing, Xiaowei He, Xin Li, Wensong Guo, Xufeng Wang and Shulin Hou
Due to the lack of water resources, the main agricultural planting method used in the northwest region of China is plastic film mulching, with precision hole sowing performed on the film after mulching. However, conventional hole-forming devices damage t...
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Giuseppe Carbone, Eike Christian Gerding, Burkard Corves, Daniele Cafolla, Matteo Russo and Marco Ceccarelli
This paper presents a novel exoskeleton mechanism for finger motion assistance. The exoskeleton is designed as a serial 2-degrees-of-freedom wearable mechanism that is able to guide human finger motion. The design process starts by analyzing the motion o...
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Yu Zhang, Yubin Liu, Xin Sui, Tianjiao Zheng, Dongyang Bie, Yulin Wang, Jie Zhao and Yanhe Zhu
Soft modular robots have advantages, including infinite degrees of freedom and various configurations. Most soft robots are actuated by inflating air pressure into their chambers. However, each chamber is connected to a tube that provides the air supply,...
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Xiaofeng Zeng, Minghai Xia, Zirong Luo, Jianzhong Shang, Yuze Xu and Qian Yin
Stable, quiet, and efficient propulsion methods are essential for underwater robots to complete their tasks in a complex marine environment. However, with a single propulsion method, such as propeller propulsion and bionic propulsion, it is difficult to ...
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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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Yonghui Cao, Shumin Ma, Yingzhuo Cao, Guang Pan, Qiaogao Huang and Yong Cao
The current development of manta ray robots is usually based on functional bionics, and there is a lack of bionic research to enhance the similarity of motion posture. To better exploit the characteristics of bionic, a similarity evaluation rule is const...
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Kunpeng Tian, Bin Zhang, Cheng Shen, Haolu Liu, Jicheng Huang and Aimin Ji
In response to the unclear issue of whether the dynamic cutting performance and structural parameters of an industrial hemp blade, which was developed earlier based on the bionic prototype of the batocera horsfieldi, can be optimized in actual working co...
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Cheng Xing, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Guang Pan and Qiaogao Huang
This research proposes a novel bionic pectoral fin and experimentally studied the effects of the oscillation parameters on the hydrodynamic performance of a bionic experimental prototype. Inspired by manta rays, the bionic pectoral fin was simplified and...
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Yanwen Liu and Hongzhou Jiang
Fish propelled by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) locomotion can achieve high-efficiency and high-speed swimming performance, by changing their body motion to interact with external fluids. This flexural body motion can be prescribed through its curvature p...
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Wenhao Yang and Wenzeng Zhang
Based on the motion principle of bionic earthworms, we designed and fabricated a novel crawling robot driven by pneumatic power. Its structure is divided into four segments, and its motion process is periodic with high stability. Due to the pneumatic suc...
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Chen Chen, Feng Ma, Xiaobin Xu, Yuwang Chen and Jin Wang
Ships are special machineries with large inertias and relatively weak driving forces. Simulating the manual operations of manipulating ships with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques becomes more and more common, in which avoiding...
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Yue He, Yu Xie, Guang Pan, Yonghui Cao, Qiaogao Huang, Shumin Ma, Daili Zhang and Yong Cao
Bionic underwater robots have many advantages such as high mobility, high efficiency, high affinity, etc. They are especially suitable for tasks such as collecting hydrographic information and for detailed surveys of the marine environment. These tasks a...
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Yiwei Hao, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Qiaogao Huang and Guang Pan
Due to external interference, such as waves, the success of underwater missions depends on the turning performance of the vehicle. Manta rays use two broad pectoral fins for propulsion, which provide better anti-interference ability and turning performan...
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Junjie He, Yonghui Cao, Qiaogao Huang, Guang Pan, Xin Dong and Yong Cao
Oscillating pectoral fins? spanwise flexibility is a key factor influencing the forwarding propulsion performance of bionic cownose rays, including thrust and heave-pitch stability. This study explores the effects of the bionic pectoral fin ray?s spanwis...
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Lingkun Chen, Shusheng Bi, Yueri Cai, Yong Cao and Guang Pan
Bionic propulsion has advantages over traditional blade propellers, such as efficiency and noise control. Existing research on ray-inspired robot fish has mainly focused on a single type of pectoral fin as bionic propeller, which only performed well in t...
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Yunlong Ma, Qiaogao Huang, Guang Pan and Pengcheng Gao
Collective motion is a unique biological habit of manta rays. As the most basic unit, the hydrodynamic mechanism of tandem gliding deserves further study. In this paper, a numerical simulation method was used to explore the influence of the front-to-back...
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Donglai Zhao, Wenjie Ge, Xiaojuan Mo, Yuzhu Li and Zhuo Wang
Due to the high power-to-weight ratio and robustness, hydraulic cylinders are widely used in the actuation area of the legged robot systems. Most of these applications are focused on the motion stability, gait planning, and impedance control. However, th...
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