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Identification of the trade-off between speed and efficiency in undulatory swimming using a bio-inspired robot

Auke Ijspeert, Karen Ann J Mulleners, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Alexandros Anastasiadis

Anguilliform swimmers, like eels or lampreys, are highly efficient swimmers. Key to understanding their performances is the relationship between the body’s kinematics and resulting swimming speed and efficiency. But, we cannot prescribe kinematics to livin ...

Nature Research2023

Monitoring weekly progress of front crawl swimmers using IMU-based performance evaluation goal metrics

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Fabien Massé, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Technical evaluation of swimming performance is an essential factor in preparing elite swimmers for their competitions. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have attracted much attention recently because they can provide coaches with a detailed analysis of sw ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

SmartSwim: A novel approach to swimming analysis and coaching assistance based on wearable inertial sensors

Mahdi Hamidi Rad

As one of the three most popular sports in the Summer Olympics, competitive swimming has always been an attractive subject of study for sports scientists. The intricate nature of the swimmer's movements and the variety of techniques have led coaches to req ...

EPFL2022

An experimental validation of the polynomial curvature model: identification and optimal control of a soft underwater tentacle

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Francesco Stella, Nana Obayashi

The control possibilities for soft robots have long been hindered by the lack of accurate yet computationally treatable dynamic models of soft structures. Polynomial curvature models propose a solution to this quest for continuum slender structures. Nevert ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2022

SmartSwim, a Novel IMU-Based Coaching Assistance

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Fabien Massé, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Swimming coaches provide regular timed and technical feedback to swimmers and guide them efficiently in training sessions. Due to the complexity of swimmers' performance, which is not visible in qualitative observation, quantitative and objective performan ...

MDPI2022

Gazebo Fluids: SPH-based simulation of fluid interaction with articulated rigid body dynamics

Auke Ijspeert, Wei Wang, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill

Physical simulation is an indispensable component of robotics simulation platforms that serves as the basis for a plethora of research directions. Looking strictly at robotics, the common characteristic of the most popular physics engines, such as ODE, DAR ...

IEEE2022

A Novel Macro-Micro Approach for Swimming Analysis in Main Swimming Techniques Using IMU Sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Inertial measurement units (IMU) are proven as efficient tools for swimming analysis by overcoming the limits of video-based systems application in aquatic environments. However, coaches still believe in the lack of a reliable and easy-to-use analysis syst ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Swimming Phase-Based Performance Evaluation Using a Single IMU in Main Swimming Techniques

Kamiar Aminian, Farzin Dadashi, Fabien Massé, Mahdi Hamidi Rad

Comprehensive monitoring of performance is essential for swimmers and swimming coaches to optimize the training. Regardless of the swimming technique, the swimmer passes various swimming phases from wall to wall, including a dive into the water or wall pus ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing

Auke Ijspeert, Kamilo Andres Melo Becerra, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Robin Thandiackal

Undulatory swimming represents an ideal behavior to investigate locomotion control and the role of the underlying central and peripheral components in the spinal cord. Many vertebrate swimmers have central pattern generators and local pressure-sensitive re ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Automated flow control of a multi-lane swimming chamber for small fishes indicates species-specific sensitivity to experimental protocols

Paulin Olivier Raison

In fishes, swimming performance is considered an important metric to measure fitness, dispersal and migratory abilities. The swimming performance of individual larval fishes is often integrated into models to make inferences on how environmental parameters ...

2021

Bio-Inspired Tensegrity Fish Robot

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Davide Zappetti

This paper presents a method to create fish-like robots with tensegrity systems and describes a prototype modeled on the body shape of the rainbow trout with a length of 400 mm and a mass of 102 g that is driven by a waterproof servomotor. The structure of ...

IEEE2020

Loopy Levy flights enhance tracer diffusion in active suspensions

Tomohiko Sano

A theoretical framework describing the hydrodynamic interactions between a passive particle and an active medium in out-of-equilibrium systems predicts long-range Levy flights for the diffusing particle driven by the density of the active component. Browni ...

2020

Anin vivomicrofluidic study of bacterial transit inC. elegansnematodes

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Matteo Cornaglia, Hüseyin Baris Atakan, Vittorio Viri

Caenorhabditis elegans(C. elegans) constitutes an important model organism for use in nutrition and aging studies. We report a novel method for studying the dynamics ofEscherichia coli(E. coli) bacterial transit through the worms' intestine. A microfluidic ...

2020

The Hydrodynamics of a Micro-Rocket Propelled by a Deformable Bubble

François Gallaire, Lailai Zhu, Giacomo Gallino

We perform simulations to study the hydrodynamics of a conical-shaped swimming micro-robot that ejects catalytically produced bubbles from its inside. We underline the nontrivial dependency of the swimming velocity on the bubble deformability and on the ge ...

2019

RoboScallop: A Bivalve Inspired Swimming Robot

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Underwater swimming robots permit remote access to over 70% of the Earth's surface that is covered in water for a variety of scientific, environmental, tactical, or industrial purposes. Many practical applications for robots in this setting include sensing ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

On the Dynamics of Magnetic Swimmers in Stokes Flow

Pauline Marie Rüegg-Reymond

In the past decade, the engineering community has conceived, manufactured and tested micro-swimmers, i.e. microscopic devices which can be steered in their intended environment. Foreseen applications range from microsurgery and targeted drug delivery to en ...

EPFL2019

Front-crawl stroke descriptors variability assessment for skill characterisation

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Farzin Dadashi

The goal of this article is to character ise front-crawl swimming skill based on variability pattern of technique descriptors. Nine national level and nine recreational swimmers performed three 300 m trials in a 50 m outdoor pool, at 70%, 80% and 90% of th ...

Taylor & Francis2016

Squirming through shear-thinning fluids

Lailai Zhu

Many micro-organisms find themselves immersed in fluids displaying non-Newtonian rheological properties such as viscoelasticity and shear-thinning viscosity. The effects of viscoelasticity on swimming at low Reynolds numbers have already received considera ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Improved Lighthill fish swimming model for bio-inspired robots: Modeling, computational aspects and experimental comparisons

Auke Ijspeert

The best known analytical model of swimming was originally developed by Lighthill and is known as the large amplitude elongated body theory (LAEBT). Recently, this theory has been improved and adapted to robotics through a series of studies ranging from hy ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

Tian Qiu

Biological microorganisms swim with flagella and cilia that execute nonreciprocal motions for low Reynolds number (Re) propulsion in viscous fluids. This symmetry requirement is a consequence of Purcell's scallop theorem, which complicates the actuation sc ...

Nature Publishing Group2014