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The Physics of Aerial Aquatic Locomotion

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Between Sea and Sky: Aerial Aquatic Locomotion in Miniature Robots

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 29))

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This chapter presents an overview of some fundamental physical laws and concepts at play in generic, as clarified in Figs. 5.1 and 5.2. The vehicle-specific physics are then introduced in the following chapters and form the basis for locomotion derived for the different vehicles presented.

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  1. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Raphael Zufferey, Robert Siddall, Sophie F. Armanini & Mirko Kovac

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Raphael Zufferey

  3. University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

    Robert Siddall

  4. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Sophie F. Armanini

  5. Swiss Federal Laboratories of Material Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    Mirko Kovac

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Zufferey, R., Siddall, R., Armanini, S.F., Kovac, M. (2022). The Physics of Aerial Aquatic Locomotion. In: Between Sea and Sky: Aerial Aquatic Locomotion in Miniature Robots. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89575-4_5

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