Download or read book Gliding Robotic Fish written by Osama Nasr Ennasr and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous underwater robots have received significant attention over the past two decades due to the increasing demand for environmental sustainability. Recently, gliding robotic fish has emerged as a promising mobile sensing platform in versatile aquatic environments. Such robots, inspired by underwater gliders and robotic fish, combine buoyancy-driven gliding and fin-actuated swimming to realize both energy-efficient locomotion and high maneuverability. In this dissertation, we first discuss the design improvements for the second-generation gliding robotic fish "Grace 2". These improvements have transformed the robots to underwater sensing platforms that can be modified to fit the requirements of a specific application with relative ease.We focus on the application of detecting and tracking live fish underwater, which is an important part of fishery research, as it helps scientists understands habitat use, migratory patterns, and spawning behavior of fishes. The gliding robotic fish has demonstrated its ability to detect special acoustic signals emulating tagged fish through a series of trials in Higgins Lake, Michigan. These tests have also validated a gliding-based strategy for navigating to a GPS waypoint, and offered insight into the limitations of the current design. Additional improvements are proposed to allow these robots to glide at larger depths and perform more interesting working patterns underwater.Motivated by the problem of tracking real fish, we consider the case where multiple robots localize and track a moving target without the need for a centralized node. We present theoretical treatment on how a network of robots can infer the location of an emitter (or target), and then track it, through a time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) localization scheme in a fully distributed manner. In particular, we utilize a networked extended Kalman filter to estimate the target's location in a distributed manner, and establish that successful localization can be achieved under fixed and time-varying undirected communication topologies if every agent is part of a network with a minimum of 4 connected, non-coplanar agents. We further propose a movement control strategy based on the norm of the estimation covariance matrices, with a tuning parameter to balance the trade-off between estimation performance and the total distance traveled by the robots.Finally, motivated by the distributed localization problem, we investigate a more general problem of distributed estimation by a network of sensors. Specifically, we consider the class of consensus-based distributed linear filters (CBDLF) where each sensor updates its estimate in two steps: a consensus step dictated by a weighted and directed communication graph, followed by a local Luenberger filtering step. We show that the sub-optimal filtering gains that minimize an upper bound of a quadratic filtering cost are related to the convergence of a set of coupled Riccati equations. Then we show that the convergence of these coupled Riccati equations depends on the notion of squared detectability for the networked system, and proceed to provide necessary conditions that link the convergence of the coupled Riccati equations to the network topology and consensus weights of the communication graph.
Download or read book Modeling Design and Control of Gliding Robotic Fish written by Feitian Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bionic Gliding Underwater Robots written by Junzhi Yu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underwater robots play a significant role in ocean exploration. This book provides full coverage of the theoretical and practical aspects of bionic gliding underwater robots, including system design, modeling control, and motion planning. To overcome the inherent shortcomings of traditional underwater robots that can simultaneously lack maneuverability and endurance, a new type of robot, the bionic gliding underwater robot, has attracted much attention from scientists and engineers. On the one hand, by imitating the appearance and swimming mechanisms of natural creatures, bionic gliding underwater robots achieve high maneuverability, swimming efficiency, and strong concealment. On the other hand, borrowing from the buoyancy adjustment systems of underwater gliders, bionic gliding underwater robots can obtain strong endurance, which is significant in practical applications. Taking gliding robotic dolphin and fish as examples, the designed prototypes and proposed methods are discussed, offering valuable insights into the development of next-generation underwater robots that are well suited for various oceanic applications. This book will be of great interest to students and professionals alike in the field of robotics or intelligent control. It will also be a great reference for engineers or technicians who deal with the development of underwater robots.
Download or read book Robot Fish written by Ruxu Du and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. It gathers contributions by the leading researchers in the area. Readers will find the book very useful for designing and building robot fish, not only in theory but also in practice. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the fields of robotics, ocean engineering and related areas.
Download or read book Bionic Sensing with Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Fish Like Underwater Robots written by Guangming Xie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors first introduce two fish-like underwater robots, including a multiple fins-actuated robotic fish and a caudal fin-actuated robotic fish with a barycenter regulating mechanism. They study how a robotic fish uses its onboard pressure sensor arrays based-ALLS to estimate its trajectory in multiple locomotions, including rectilinear motion, turning motion, ascending motion, and spiral motion. In addition, they also explore the ALLS-based relative position and attitude perception between two robotic fish in a leader-follower formation. Four regression methods—multiple linear regression methods, support vector regressions, back propagation neural networks, and random forest methods—are used to evaluate the relative positions or attitudes using the ALLS data. The research on ALLS-based local sensing between two adjacent fish robots extends current research from one individual underwater robot to two robots in formation, and will attract increasing attention from scholars of robotics, underwater technology, biomechanics and systems, and control engineering.
Download or read book Underwater Labriform swimming Robot written by Farah Abbas Naser and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a simplified description of how to design an underwater swimming robot, inspired by the mechanism of the Labriform mode of fish. This style of swimming depends on the pectoral fins only as a main locomotor for movement. A unique model with fins having a concave shape allows the highest thrust force to be achieved during the power period and the lowest drag force during the recovery period, especially if the velocity values between the powering and recovery periods are manipulated.Besides the ability to swim quickly, the proposed model was also inspired by a method of maneuvering based on the principle of differential drive for two-wheel mobile robot, achieving the minimum turning radius by controlling the speed of the rowing fins.Also, by applying the technique of the diving model used by gliders, the robot achieves underwater gliding by changing the center of the body's mass. Thus, the robot obtains the ability to dive and float in a manner similar to the Sawtooth wave.All the mentioned tasks were conducted via laboratory experiments and proven to be both effective and efficient.
Download or read book Robotic Fish Isplash ii written by Richard James Clapham, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract-This paper introduces a new robotic fish, iSplash-II, capable of outperforming real carangiform fish in terms of average maximum velocity (measured in body lengths/ second) and endurance, the duration that top speed is maintained. A new fabrication technique and mechanical drive system were developed, effectively transmitting large forces at high frequencies to obtain high-speed propulsion. The lateral and thrust forces were optimized around the center of mass, generating accurate kinematic displacements and greatly increasing the magnitude of added mass. The prototype, with a length of 32cm has significantly increased the linear swimming speed of robotic fish, achieving consistent untethered stabilized swimming speeds of 11.6BL/s (i.e. 3.7m/s), with a frequency of 20Hz. Keywords: Robotic fish * Carangiform swimming * Mechanical drive system * Full-Body length.
Download or read book Robotic Fish written by Jianxun Wang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bionic Sensing with Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Fish Like Underwater Robots written by Guangming Xie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors first introduce two fish-like underwater robots, including a multiple fins-actuated robotic fish and a caudal fin-actuated robotic fish with a barycenter regulating mechanism. They study how a robotic fish uses its onboard pressure sensor arrays based-ALLS to estimate its trajectory in multiple locomotions, including rectilinear motion, turning motion, ascending motion, and spiral motion. In addition, they also explore the ALLS-based relative position and attitude perception between two robotic fish in a leader-follower formation. Four regression methods—multiple linear regression methods, support vector regressions, back propagation neural networks, and random forest methods—are used to evaluate the relative positions or attitudes using the ALLS data. The research on ALLS-based local sensing between two adjacent fish robots extends current research from one individual underwater robot to two robots in formation, and will attract increasing attention from scholars of robotics, underwater technology, biomechanics and systems, and control engineering.
Download or read book Modeling and Control of a Bioinspired Robotic Fish Underwater Vehicle written by Abhra Roy Chowdhury and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotic fish is propelled by an oscillating, 2-joint caudal fin and two pectoral fins. Major kinematic parameters of robot are based on kinematics study of a yellow fin tuna. A bio-inspired algorithmic framework with these parameters is found to produce the body wave, along robot's joints. A novel dynamic model is proposed by unifying conventional rigid body dynamics and bio-fluid-dynamics of carangiform swimming. Accuracies of hydrodynamic forces are examined. A central pattern generator structure is applied to generate desired rhythmic patterns preserving control properties. A two level locomotion control architecture based on vertebrate fish biology is implemented. An inverse dynamic control method based on non-linear state function model is proposed to improve tracking performance. Further, dynamic motion closed loop control strategies are developed, implemented and compared based on three different nonlinear control schemes. Experimental results obtained show that inverse dynamic model based control using dynamic compensation can improve trajectory tracking accuracy and smoothness significantly. Robotic fish is found to exhibit swimming patterns similar to the biological fish.
Download or read book Bio Inspired Robotics written by Toshio Fukuda and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Bio-Inspired Robotics" that was published in Applied Sciences
Download or read book Development of Small Biomimetic Robotic Fish with Onboard Fine grained Localization written by Stephan W. Shatara and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonlinear Control of Robotic Fish written by Maria L. Castano and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades, robots that propel and maneuver themselves like fish, known as robotic fish, have received substantial attention due to their efficiency, maneuverability, and lifelike features. Their agile locomotion can be partially attributed to their bio-inspired propulsion methods, which range from tail (caudal) and dorsal to paired pectoral fins. While these characteristics make robotic fish an attractive choice for a myriad of aquatic applications, their highly nonlinear, often under-actuated dynamics and actuator constraints present significant challenges in control design. The goal of this dissertation is to develop systematic model-based control approaches that guarantee closed-loop system stability, accommodate input constraints, and are computationally viable for robotic fish. We first propose a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) approach for path-following of a tail-actuated robotic fish, where the control design is based on an averaged dynamic model. The bias and the amplitude of the tail oscillation are treated as physical variables to be manipulated and are related to the control inputs via a nonlinear map. A control projection method is introduced to accommodate the inputs constraints while minimizing the optimization complexity in solving the NMPC problem. Both simulation and experimental results on a tail-actuated robotic fish support the efficacy of the proposed approach and its advantages over alternative approaches. Although NMPC is a promising candidate for tracking control, its computational complexity poses significant challenges in its implementation on resource-constrained robotic fish. We thus propose a backstepping-based trajectory tracking control scheme that is computationally inexpensive and guarantees closed-loop stability. We demonstrate how the control scheme can be synthesized to handle input constraints and establish via singular perturbation analysis the ultimate boundedness of three tracking errors (2D-position and orientation) despite the under-actuated nature of the robot. The effectiveness of this approach is supported by both simulation and experimental results on a tail-actuated robotic fish. We then turn our attention to pectoral fin-actuated robotic fish. Despite its benefits in achieving agile maneuvering at low swimming speeds, the range constraint of pectoral fin movement presents challenges in control. To overcome these challenges, we propose two different backstepping-based control approaches to achieve trajectory tracking and quick-maneuvering control, respectively. We first propose a scaling-based approach to develop a control-affine nonlinear dynamic average model for a pectoral fin-actuated robotic fish, which is validated via both simulation and experiments. The utility of the developed average dynamic model is then demonstrated via the synthesis of a dual-loop backstepping-based trajectory tracking controller. Cyclic actuation can often limit precise manipulation of the fin movements and the full exploitation of the maneuverability of pectoral fin-actuated robotic fish. To achieve quick velocity maneuvering control, we propose a dual-loop control approach composed of a backstepping-based controller in the outer loop and a fin movement-planning algorithm in the inner loop. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme via comparison with a nonlinear model predictive controller.
Download or read book Guidance Navigation and Control of a Robotic Fish written by Mohan Gurunathan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design Development and Modeling of a Wirelessly Charged Robotic Fish written by Hussein Naeem Hasan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intelligent Robotics and Applications written by YongAn Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017. The 235 papers presented in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers in this first volume of the set are organized in topical sections on soft, micro-nano, bio-inspired robotics; human-machine interaction; swarm robotics; underwater robotics.
Download or read book Mobile Robots written by Gerald Cook and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the normal kinematic and dynamic equations for robots, including mobile robots, with coordinate transformations and various control strategies This fully updated edition examines the use of mobile robots for sensing objects of interest, and focus primarily on control, navigation, and remote sensing. It also includes an entirely new section on modeling and control of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), which exhibits unique complex three-dimensional dynamics. Mobile Robots: Navigation, Control and Sensing, Surface Robots and AUVs, Second Edition starts with a chapter on kinematic models for mobile robots. It then offers a detailed chapter on robot control, examining several different configurations of mobile robots. Following sections look at robot attitude and navigation. The application of Kalman Filtering is covered. Readers are also provided with a section on remote sensing and sensors. Other chapters discuss: target tracking, including multiple targets with multiple sensors; obstacle mapping and its application to robot navigation; operating a robotic manipulator; and remote sensing via UAVs. The last two sections deal with the dynamics modeling of AUVs and control of AUVs. In addition, this text: Includes two new chapters dealing with control of underwater vehicles Covers control schemes including linearization and use of linear control design methods, Lyapunov stability theory, and more Addresses the problem of ground registration of detected objects of interest given their pixel coordinates in the sensor frame Analyzes geo-registration errors as a function of sensor precision and sensor pointing uncertainty Mobile Robots: Navigation, Control and Sensing, Surface Robots and AUVs is intended for use as a textbook for a graduate course of the same title and can also serve as a reference book for practicing engineers working in related areas.