著者

Chen Friedman Bryan W. Joel Allen R. Schult Megan C. Leftwich

出版者

エアロ・アクアバイオメカニズム学会

雑誌

Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms (ISSN:21851522)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, no.1, pp.25-31, 2015 (Released:2015-07-08)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

1 5

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Underwater propulsion that leaves little traceable wake structure while producing high levels of thrust is a highly desired goal. A potential biological model is the California sea lion, a highly maneuverable aquatic mammal that produces thrust primarily with its foreflippers without a characteristic flapping frequency. In an effort to mimic the sea lion flipper, a flipper from a sea lion carcass has been scanned using several non invasive methods with the goal of manufacturing a robotic flipper with identical geometry. The scanning methods are hereby compared for overall quality, accuracy, and level of detail captured.