Animal Mechanics Links



 

Animal Locomotion Bibliography

Info pages

Hydro- and Aerodynamics of Animal Swimming and Flight

Introduction to fish swimming - includes quicktime videos of fish swimming in several of the classsic locomotor modes based on Breder's classification

two-dimensional unsteady flows about moving airfoil

Labs

Robert Full's lab - the Performance, Energetics and Dynamics of Animal Locomotion lab

John Gosline's lab - Animal mechanics and biomaterials lab

James Marden's lab - physiology and evolution of insect flight

Berkeley's locomotion lab - physiology and biomechanics of walking and running

Swimming Machines

RoboBass

RoboBird

RoboLamprey

RoboTuna


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