Development of an artificial fish-like robot and its application in cooperative transportation

The design of an artificial fish-like robot and its application in cooperative transportation is described in this paper. Although there have been plenty of results obtained in multi-robot cooperation, they are seldom concerned with underwater applications. In this paper, a fish-like robot is designed from the perspective of biomimetics and then, using multiple fish robots, a cooperative transportation task is designed and implemented based on a situated action selection approach. The experimental trials are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.