
Information Technology and Computer Application Engineering – Liu, Sung & Yao (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00079-7
Effect of body stiffness on the swimming performance of a robotic fish
Z. Cui & H.Z. Jiang
School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
ABSTRACT: Previous biological experiments show that the fish has a super swimming performance when
the driven frequency is closed to the natural frequency. Inspired by that, a biomimetic fish based on continuous
compliant visco-elastic body is presented, and the body dynamics deduced from the Bernoulli-Euller beam
equation is also proposed. ...