Kundan Panta, Hankun Deng, Zhiyu Zhang, Daning Huang, Azar Panah, Bo Cheng
In this work, we explored a bioinspired method for underwater object sensing based on active proprioception. We investigated whether the fluid flows generated by a robotic flapper, while interacting with an underwater wall, can encode the distance information between the wall and the flapper, and how to decode this information using the proprioception within the flapper. Such touchless wall-distance sensing is enabled by the active motion of a flapping plate, which injects self-generated flow to the fluid environment, thus representing a form of active sensing...
January 22, 2024: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics