The hydrodynamic control laws of unsteady fins inspired by swimming and flying animals are considered. A controller based on cycle-averaged forces requires a bandwidth lower than the flapping frequency, with correspondingly slow reactions to disturbances or commands in order to avoid undesirable feedback from the oscillating fins. A harmonic model of the periodic thruster forces was empirically found using a mechanical fin flapping in roll and pitch in hover, in uniform flow, and under various kinematic conditions. A multi-fin vehicle could use this model to account for the dominant non-linearities and minimize undesirable motions through coordinated control of individual fins. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Beal, D. N., & Bandyopadhyay, P. R. (2010). A harmonic model of hydrodynamic forces produced by a flapping fin. In Animal Locomotion (pp. 37–44). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11633-9_4
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