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 …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Aquatic and aerial animals have developed their superior and complete mechanisms of
swimming and flight. These mechanisms bring excellent locomotion performances to natural …

In this article, we propose a new dynamic model of Cosserat beams in view of its application
to continuum and soft robotics manipulation and locomotion. In contrast to usual …

Biomimetic underwater robots have attracted considerable research attention globally,
owing to their quieter actuations, higher propulsion efficiency, and stronger maneuverability …

To evaluate the swimming performances of aquatic animals, an important dimensionless
quantity is the Strouhal number, St= fA/U, with f the tail-beat frequency, A the peak-to-peak …

Self-sustained oscillations resulting from fluid–solid instabilities, such as the flutter of a
flexible flag in axial flow, can be used to harvest energy if one is able to convert the solid …

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 …

The impact of Strouhal number St (= 0.1–1.0), Reynolds number Re (= 50–2000) and
dimensionless wavelength λ (= 0.5–2.0) on the hydrodynamic performance of a travelling …

Most aquatic vertebrates swim by passing a bending wave down their bodies, a swimming
mode known as undulatory propulsion. Except for very elongated swimmers like eels and …