Bio-Robotics and Control (BiRC) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Bioinspir Biomim. 2018 May 8;13(4):041002. doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/aab460.
Many bio-inspired robots have been developed so far after careful investigation of animals' locomotion. To successfully apply the locomotion of natural counterparts to robots for efficient and improved mobility, it is essential to understand their principles. Although a lot of research has studied either animals' locomotion or bio-inspired robots, there have only been a few attempts to broadly review both of them in a single article. Among the millions of animal species, this article reviewed various forms of aquatic locomotion in arthropods including relevant bio-inspired robots. Despite some previous robotics research inspired by aquatic arthropods, we found that many less-investigated or even unexplored areas are still present. Therefore, this article has been prepared to identify what types of new robotics research can be carried out after drawing inspiration from the aquatic locomotion of arthropods and to provide fruitful insights that may lead us to develop an agile and efficient aquatic robot.
目前已经开发出了许多仿生机器人，这些机器人的开发是在对动物运动方式进行了仔细研究之后进行的。为了成功地将自然对应物的运动应用于机器人，实现高效和改进的移动性，理解它们的原理至关重要。尽管已经有很多研究要么研究动物的运动方式，要么研究仿生机器人，但很少有尝试在一篇文章中广泛地综述两者。在数百万种动物物种中，本文综述了节肢动物的各种形式的水生运动，包括相关的仿生机器人。尽管之前有一些受水生节肢动物启发的机器人研究，但我们发现仍有许多研究较少或甚至未被探索的领域。因此，本文旨在确定从节肢动物的水生运动中获得灵感后可以进行哪些类型的新机器人研究，并提供可能导致我们开发出敏捷高效的水生机器人的富有成效的见解。
