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Chapitres
- 00:05Titre
- 00:40Design of the Base Piece
- 01:43Design of the Middle Section
- 02:59Design of the Tip Piece
- 03:45Creating the Flipper
- 05:47Adding Skin to the Flipper
- 07:33Results: Imaging of the Flow around a Flapping Robotic Flipper
- 08:24Conclusion
A robotic platform is described that will be used to study the hydrodynamic performance—forces and flowfields—of the swimming California sea lion. The robot is a model of the animal's foreflipper that is actuated by motors to replicate the motion of its propulsive stroke (the 'clap').
