@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {7588},
      author = {Rana, R K and Johnson, N and Dongare, P and Barve, S},
      title = {Is there a case for emulating a fish or other sea borne  creatures for propulsion of underwater vehicles?},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of INEC},
      address = {2018-10-02},
      number = {GENERAL},
      abstract = {Fish and other sea borne creatures have invoked interest  in the minds of many professionals to study how they propel  themselves in water and whether similar principles can be  applied to the design of underwater vehicles.

Adopting  these principles for propulsion had been a challenge some  decades ago, but with the current technological progress in  robotics, design analysis, advanced computing, precision  manufacturing, 3D printing, sensors, actuation, image  processing etc have rekindled an interest in this field,  especially in the Indian context.

Moreover, with the  thrust on development of unmanned autonomous systems,  especially for the naval warfare, there is a case for  looking at an efficient way to propel such vehicles that  can stay underwater for a longer duration, move and  navigate faster than those traditionally shaped and  propelled by screw propellers or pump jets.

This paper  looks at some of the basics of fish locomotion; technology  trends; examples of the current developments; benefits of  emerging technologies, investigate performance of some  basic shapes of caudal fin of fish with the help of modern  analytical tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics and  the way ahead.},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/7588},
}