Papers
11
Total Citations
342
H-Index
9
About
Gert Toming is an Estonian robotics researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of biomimetic robotics, hydrodynamic sensing, and underwater autonomous systems. His research draws inspiration from fish biology — particularly the lateral line sensory system — to develop novel sensing and control strategies for underwater robots. His most influential contribution, a 2012 study on hydrodynamic pressure sensing with an artificial lateral line (119 citations), established foundational understanding of how flow sensing can be leveraged from the perspective of a situated aquatic agent navigating both steady flows and complex Kármán vortex streets. This work directly informed his involvement in the FILOSE bioinspired robot project (74 citations), which demonstrated how evolution-optimized swimming mechanics could revolutionize underwater vehicle design. Toming also contributed to the U-CAT autonomous robot, a low-cost biomimetic vehicle designed for shipwreck archaeological exploration. A consistent thread throughout his career is the use of compliant body structures to replicate natural fish locomotion efficiently, alongside pioneering efforts in flow-feature-based underwater localization — work that positions hydrodynamic sensing as a viable complement to conventional sonar and vision systems in complex aquatic environments.
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- 2FILOSE for Svenning: A Flow Sensing Bioinspired Robot74 citations · 2014
- 3Design principle of a biomimetic underwater robot U-CAT35 citations · 2014
- 4A bio-inspired compliant robotic fish: Design and experiments23 citations · 2012
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- 6Swimming speed control and on-board flow sensing of an artificial trout18 citations · 2011
- 7Underwater map-based localization using flow features14 citations · 2016
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