ArticleCommunications biology2021
Burst-and-coast swimmers optimize gait by adapting unique intrinsic cycle.
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- Improving propulsive efficiency using bio-inspired intermittent locomotion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Using neuronal models to capture burst-and-glide motion and leadership in fish.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient butterfly stroke-like soft swimmer.Science advances · 2022Article
- Intermittent propulsion in largemouth bass,Biology letters · 2022Article
- Body Caudal Undulation Measured by Soft Sensors and Emulated by Soft Artificial Muscles.Integrative and comparative biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper addresses the physical mechanism of intermittent swimming by considering the burst-and-coast regime of fish swimming at different speeds. The burst-and-coast regime consists of a cycle with two successive phases, i.e., a phase of active undulation powered by the fish muscles followed by a passive gliding phase. Observations of real fish whose swimming gait is forced in a water flume from low to high speed regimes are performed, using a full description of the fish kinematics and mechanics. We first show that fish modulate a unique intrinsic cycle to sustain the demanded speed by modifying the bursting to coasting ratio while maintaining the duration of the cycle nearly constant. Secondly, we show using numerical simulations that the chosen kinematics by correspond to optimized gaits for swimming speeds larger than 1 body length per second.
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