• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.913-916
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• 2014

본 논문의 수중로봇 도미(Domi) ver1.0는 관상어용 물고기 로봇 개발을 목표로 연구 개발되었다. 물고기 로봇은 머리, 1단, 2단 몸체와 꼬리부분과 2개의 구동 관절로 구성되어 있다. 물고기 로봇의 추력에 적합한 구동부 선정을 위하여 물고기 로봇 모델링과 유영 해석을 통하여 관절 구동부가 설계되었다. 또한 물고기 로봇의 유영알고리즘은 Lighthill 운동학 해석을 기초로 생체 모방의 유영 근사화 방법을 적용하였다. 설계된 물고기는 수동유영 및 자율운영모드로 동작된다. 수동유영모드는 RF 송수신에 의하여 구현된다. 본 설계된 물고기로봇 도미 ver1.0은 수중 현장시험 평가을 통하여 추력, 내구성, 방수성 등의 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.906-912
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• 2014

The study of fish robot is a main subject that are related with the propulsive force comparison using a varying amplitude and frequency for body and tail motion trajectory, and the quick turn using a proper trajectory function. In this study, when a fish robot thrusts forward, feedback control is difficult to apply for a fish robot, because body and tail joints as a sine wave are rolled. Therefore, we detect the virtual position based on the path of the fish robot, define the angle errors using the detected position and the look-ahead point on the given path, and design a controller to track given path. We have found that the proposed method is useful through the computer simulations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.510-518
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• 2014

In this study, in order to improve and optimize the performance of the turning mechanism for a fish robot in the fluid, we propose the tail joint trajectories using neural networks to mimic the CST(C-shape Sharp Turn) patterns of a real fish which is optimized in the natural environment. In order to mimic the CST patterns of a fish, we convert the sequential recording CST patterns into the coordinate data, and change the numerical coordinate data into a functions. We change the motion functions to the relative joint angles which is adapted to suit robot's shape and data. However, these relative joint trajectories obtained by the sequential recording of the carp have low-precision. It is difficult to apply to the control of a fish robot. Therefore, the relative joint trajectories are interpolated using neural networks with superior generalization ability and applied to the fish robot. we have found that the proposed method using neural networks is superior to ones using high-order polynomial equation through the computer simulations.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

This paper introduces the mechanical design, fabrication, and control of a biomimetic fish robot whose driving motions resemble a real fish's flexibility and movement. This robot uses two motors create flexible movement like that of a fish. Several schemes, such as neutral buoyancy, fast underwater swimming, and direction changes, are introduced. The tail of the fish robot is made of a polymer material for flexible movement. The interior of the tail contains a joint and a wire. A sine wave command was applied to the tail to produce motion resembling a real fish swimming, and a buoy control device was installed. The up and down motion of the robot fish was controlled using this device.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1756-1763
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• 2011

This paper was researched the straight cruise of fish robot according to biological mimic, and it was compared the proposed method which was considered up to 7th order components in fourier series of Liu's tail motion function with the approximate method which was used general sine function by simulation. If fish robot has a large number of links and if the length of tail link is long. The end rotary joint trajectory of tail motion function generally is different from sine function. Therefore The approximate method which expresses tail motion trajectories as fundamental component in fourier series has a problem. Through the computer simulation, the proposed method showed 10% excellent propulsion and velocity than the conventional method.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.219-224
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• 2015

In this paper, the designed fish robots DOMI ver1.0 is researched and development for aquarium underwater robot. The presented fish robot consists of the head, 1'st stage body, 2nd stage body and tail, which is connected two point driving joints. The model of the robot fish is analysis to maximize the momentum of the robot fish and the body of the robot is designed through the analysis of the biological fish swimming. Also, Lighthill was applied to the kinematics analysis of robot fish swimming algorithms, we are applied to the approximate method of the streamer model that utilizes techniques mimic the biological fish. The swimming robot has two operating mode such as manual and autonomous operation modes. In manual mode the fish robot is operated to using the RF transceiver, and in autonomous mode the robot is controlled by microprocessor board that is consist PSD sensor for the object recognition and avoidance. In order to the submerged and emerged, the robot has the bladder device in a head portion. The robot gravity center weight is transferred to a one-axis sliding and it is possible to the submerged and emerged of DOMI robot by the breath unit. It was verified by the performance test of this design robot DOMI ver1.0. It was confirmed that excellent performance, such as driving force, durability and water resistance through the underwater field test.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2012

최근 육상자원의 한계로 해양 자원에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 수중에서 자유자재로 운용할 수 있는 수중로봇의 경제적 가치가 부각되고 있으며, 특히 기술적 한계를 극복하기 위해 물고기나 수중생물을 모사한 생체모방형 수중로봇에 대한 연구가 활발해지고 있어 이를 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.2626-2631
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• 2011

CST(C-shape sharp turn) represented the motion whereby fish bend their tail quickly in a C-shape to achieve an emergent changing of its swimming direction on fish swimming. But there is not yet the general motion trajectory functions related to CST. In this paper, we proposed the very simple motion functions related to CST sequence recorded from a real fish by biologists. Through the computer simulations, we confirmed the usefulness of the proposed function.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.1209-1210
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.435-440
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• 2007

Fish-mimetic robots or fish-mimetic propulsors have been developed or under construction. A mechanical system cannot have the same functions as bio-organic systems. Thus, the hydrodynamic characteristics of fish locomotion should be well understood in order to develop and control a feasible intelligent fish-mimetic robot with its optimal motion pattern known. In this paper, a mackerel-mimetic robot fish is fabricated in order to understand the hydrodynamic characteristics of fish locomotion. A simplified unsteady flow theory is also applied to the hydrodynamic analysis of the motion of the anterior part of the robotic fish. The normal and axial forces of the fish are measured by changing the amplitude and frequencies of fanning motion. It is found that the present theoretical results agree with the measured data.