Locomotion Dynamics for Bio-inspired Robots with Soft Appendages: Application to Flapping Flight and Passive Swimming |
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Authors: | Frédéric?Boyer Email author" target="_blank">Mathieu?PorezEmail author Ferhat?Morsli Yannick?Morel |
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Institution: | 1.Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department,Ecole des Mines de Nantes,Nantes Cedex 3,France;2.Laboratory of Structure Mechanics,Ecole Militaire Polytechnique - BEB,Alger,Algeria;3.BioRob,Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,Lausanne,Switzerland |
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Abstract: | In animal locomotion, either in fish or flying insects, the use of flexible terminal organs or appendages greatly improves the performance of locomotion (thrust and lift). In this article, we propose a general unified framework for modeling and simulating the (bio-inspired) locomotion of robots using soft organs. The proposed approach is based on the model of Mobile Multibody Systems (MMS). The distributed flexibilities are modeled according to two major approaches: the Floating Frame Approach (FFA) and the Geometrically Exact Approach (GEA). Encompassing these two approaches in the Newton–Euler modeling formalism of robotics, this article proposes a unique modeling framework suited to the fast numerical integration of the dynamics of a MMS in both the FFA and the GEA. This general framework is applied on two illustrative examples drawn from bio-inspired locomotion: the passive swimming in von Karman Vortex Street, and the hovering flight with flexible flapping wings. |
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