Research on Biomimetic Underwater Vehicles Undertaken at Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics

In the recent years, a dynamical development of an underwater robotics has been noticed. The robotics is developed in several different directions by many foreign and a few national R&D centers. The development is focused on both an improvement of construction and features of the underwater vehicles (a hardware development) and an increase of underwater vehicle autonomy providing to a swarm control (a software development). In the paper, new research area focused on biomimetic underwater robots undertaken at the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics in the recent years is presented. The area concern both hardware and software development of the underwater vehicles. In the paper, the research on biomimetic underwater vehicles developed within national and international projects is described. At the end of the paper, a summary containing foreseen research is included.