The team reconstructed the ancient creature’s swimming style by creating a bio-inspired control system for a plesiosaur-like robot.
The ancient world was a bizarre place, populated by peculiar creatures that defied imagination, from the depths of the ocean to the highest reaches of the sky.
A team of researchers from Tohoku University, Kanagawa University, and the University of Manchester have tried to crack the code. “Instead of focusing solely on how water interacts with plesiosaur bodies – that is, the hydrodynamics of swimming – we decided to examine how these animals controlled their movement,” said Akio Ishiguro, a professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University.
The control system they developed was able to coordinate the movement of the robot’s four flippers in a way that mimics the way a real plesiosaur might have moved.
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