| Abstract: |
| In this talk, in a context of simulation and experiment about the 2D-motion at a low-Reynolds number we present the copepod swimmer a model developed by Takagi based on the observation of the copepod zooplankton and which
is the simplest micro-swimmer robot which can be designated. A 2D-motion is decoupled into a sequence of pure translation motion associated with symmetric strokes and translation-rotation motion with general strokes. Each subpath is followed using efficient strokes, minimizing the mechanical energy dissipated by the micro-swimmer and which are calculated using geodesics computational techniques from sub-Riemannian geometry |
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