Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Experimental and analytical study on factors in...
View graph of relations

Experimental and analytical study on factors influencing biomimetic undulating fin propulsion performance based on orthogonal experimental design

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published

Standard

Experimental and analytical study on factors influencing biomimetic undulating fin propulsion performance based on orthogonal experimental design. / Wang, Guangming; Ma, Xiandong; Hua, Tianjiang et al.
In: Advanced Robotics, Vol. 27, No. 8, 2013, p. 597-609.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Harvard

APA

Vancouver

Wang G, Ma X, Hua T, Zhang D. Experimental and analytical study on factors influencing biomimetic undulating fin propulsion performance based on orthogonal experimental design. Advanced Robotics. 2013;27(8):597-609. Epub 2013 Feb 11. doi: 10.1080/01691864.2013.763749

Author

Bibtex

@article{e0fc8a5ef58646469dca4b21121d601d,
title = "Experimental and analytical study on factors influencing biomimetic undulating fin propulsion performance based on orthogonal experimental design",
abstract = "This paper presents an experimental study on the structural and motion parameters of a biomimetic mechanical fin, as actuators for biomimetic underwater vehicles, and their influences on its propulsion performance. Orthogonal experimental design method is employed to optimize the test scheme due to its capability of reducing experiment time and rapid determination of influencing factors. A L64 orthogonal array is adopted in our seven-factor mixed factorial experiment with three structure parameters and four motion parameters. The experimental results of range analysis and variance analysis are discussed. The statistic results show that the fin-ray configuration, sway frequency, wave number and rigidity of membrane are the primary factors affecting the integrated propelling performance of the biomimetic mechanical fin. Optimizing these parameters needs to compromise the propelling speed, efficiency and maximum output power of the actuator. The analytic results are also in agreement with theoretical analysis and simulation study on inclined-angle of fish fin-ray. Consequently, proper modification of the inclined angle of the fin-ray might improve not only the propelling speed and acceleration, but also the propelling efficiency.",
keywords = "Biomimetics, fish swimming, undulating propulsion, Orthogonal experiment design",
author = "Guangming Wang and Xiandong Ma and Tianjiang Hua and Daibing Zhang",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1080/01691864.2013.763749",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "597--609",
journal = "Advanced Robotics",
issn = "0169-1864",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "8",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Experimental and analytical study on factors influencing biomimetic undulating fin propulsion performance based on orthogonal experimental design

AU - Wang, Guangming

AU - Ma, Xiandong

AU - Hua, Tianjiang

AU - Zhang, Daibing

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This paper presents an experimental study on the structural and motion parameters of a biomimetic mechanical fin, as actuators for biomimetic underwater vehicles, and their influences on its propulsion performance. Orthogonal experimental design method is employed to optimize the test scheme due to its capability of reducing experiment time and rapid determination of influencing factors. A L64 orthogonal array is adopted in our seven-factor mixed factorial experiment with three structure parameters and four motion parameters. The experimental results of range analysis and variance analysis are discussed. The statistic results show that the fin-ray configuration, sway frequency, wave number and rigidity of membrane are the primary factors affecting the integrated propelling performance of the biomimetic mechanical fin. Optimizing these parameters needs to compromise the propelling speed, efficiency and maximum output power of the actuator. The analytic results are also in agreement with theoretical analysis and simulation study on inclined-angle of fish fin-ray. Consequently, proper modification of the inclined angle of the fin-ray might improve not only the propelling speed and acceleration, but also the propelling efficiency.

AB - This paper presents an experimental study on the structural and motion parameters of a biomimetic mechanical fin, as actuators for biomimetic underwater vehicles, and their influences on its propulsion performance. Orthogonal experimental design method is employed to optimize the test scheme due to its capability of reducing experiment time and rapid determination of influencing factors. A L64 orthogonal array is adopted in our seven-factor mixed factorial experiment with three structure parameters and four motion parameters. The experimental results of range analysis and variance analysis are discussed. The statistic results show that the fin-ray configuration, sway frequency, wave number and rigidity of membrane are the primary factors affecting the integrated propelling performance of the biomimetic mechanical fin. Optimizing these parameters needs to compromise the propelling speed, efficiency and maximum output power of the actuator. The analytic results are also in agreement with theoretical analysis and simulation study on inclined-angle of fish fin-ray. Consequently, proper modification of the inclined angle of the fin-ray might improve not only the propelling speed and acceleration, but also the propelling efficiency.

KW - Biomimetics

KW - fish swimming

KW - undulating propulsion

KW - Orthogonal experiment design

U2 - 10.1080/01691864.2013.763749

DO - 10.1080/01691864.2013.763749

M3 - Journal article

VL - 27

SP - 597

EP - 609

JO - Advanced Robotics

JF - Advanced Robotics

SN - 0169-1864

IS - 8

ER -