Development of a Fast-Swimming Dolphin Robot Capable of Leaping

It remains a great challenge for a biomimetic dolphin robot to leap out of the water by reason of requirements for very high speed and exquisite motion control. In this paper, we estimate the minimum exit speed that allows the dolphin to completely leap out of the water, and for the first time, we build a self-contained leaping dolphin robot with commercially available actuators and power supply. ...