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A review of the flexible driving mode of underwater software robot and its mechanism of bionic movement

  • FU Kejie ,
  • CAO Xunuo ,
  • ZHANG Zhen ,
  • LIU Xianwei ,
  • LI Guorui ,
  • LIANG Yiming ,
  • LI Tiefeng
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  • Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

Received date: 2017-06-30

  Revised date: 2017-08-15

  Online published: 2017-09-25

Abstract

With the increase of the underwater operation requirements and the development of the soft robot technology, the underwater soft robot becomes one of the top choices in the underwater robots. The underwater soft robots with artificial muscles to realize the drive control and the bionic motion become a research hot spot. This paper introduces underwater soft robots in seven kinds of the existing drive modes, based on the artificial muscles. The underwater soft robots can have five bionic movement forms. At the end, the future applications of underwater robots in the underwater exploration are discussed.

Cite this article

FU Kejie , CAO Xunuo , ZHANG Zhen , LIU Xianwei , LI Guorui , LIANG Yiming , LI Tiefeng . A review of the flexible driving mode of underwater software robot and its mechanism of bionic movement[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2017 , 35(18) : 44 -51 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2017.18.005

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