Bioinspired multiphasic autonomous vehicles
Through our collaboration with the Bioinspired Adaptive Morphology lab at Princeton University, led by Prof. Aimy Wissa, we are investigating and modeling the unique aerial flight and swimming of the flying fish, with the goal of bringing these two modes together and study the take-off transition at the water surface. This work builds on our previous research using bioinspired fish robotics model organisms (RMOs) for evolutionary and biomechanical research.
NSF RAISE grant to study aquatic-aerial transition physics
This work funds a collaboration between the Flammang lab at NJIT, the Wissa lab at Princeton University, and the Cal lab at Portland State University.
Bioinspired design in research: Evolution as beta-testing.
Flammang BE. 2022. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icac134.
Pectoral fin motion can be sensed through flow against the body
Kahn et al. 2012. Hover kinematics and distributed pressure sensing for force control of biorobotic fins. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS):1460-1466. PDF
Bioinspired fin webbing sensor
Bruns et al. 2024. A bioinspired fish fin webbing for proprioceptive feedback. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ada1bb
Development of a robot to study fish flight
Saro-Cortes et al. 2022. An Adaptable Flying Fish Robotic Model for Aero- and Hydrodynamic Experimentation. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icac101.
Development of the flying fish swimming robot
Saro-Cortes et al. 2023. Model Organism: A Study on the Effects of the Caudal Fin Shape. 2023 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications
We developed an autonomous robot capable of hovering
Flammang et al. 2017. Building a fish: the biology and engineering behind an autonomous underwater vehicle. MTS Journal 51(5):15-22. PDF
We validate RMOs using kinematics and fluids dynamics
Esposito et al. 2012. A robotic fish caudal fin: effects of stiffness and motor program on locomotor performance. The Journal of Experimental Biology 215(1):56-67. PDF Supplemental video