2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Novel Mechatronics Design for a Robotic Fish* Jindong Liu, Ian Dukes, Huosheng Hu Department of Computer Science, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom Email:
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[email protected] Abstract – This paper presents a novel mechatronics design for a 3D swimming robotic fish, namely MT1 (Mechanical Tail) robotic fish. It has a novel tail structure which uses only one motor to generate fish-like swimming motion using C-bends tail shapes. This design enables MT1 to become the first small size robotic fish (
