Cycle-resolved Cephalopod-Inspired Pulsed-Jet Robot With High-Volume Expulsion and Drag-Reduced Gliding
Cephalopod pulsed-jet locomotion is not a single isolated expulsion event, but a coordinated cycle involving jet expulsion, passive gliding, and mantle refilling. Inspired by this cycle-resolved biological strategy, this paper presents a cephalopod-inspired pulsed-jet robot with a rigid-soft hybrid origami mantle that enables large, actively driven, and geometry-guided body deformation. The proposed mantle integrates rigid folding panels with a compliant silicone framework, allowing a 75% effective cavity-volume reduction during expulsion and reducing the projected cross-sectional drag area by approximately 75.7% in the contracted gliding configuration. Using this platform, we formulate a cycle-resolved framework to separately investigate how expelled volume, glide duration, and refill pathway influence whole-cycle locomotion performance. Experiments show that the robot reaches a peak speed of approximately 0.5 m/s (3.8 BL/s) and an average speed exceeding 0.2 m/s (1.5 BL/s) within the first jetting cycle. The results further demonstrate the roles of high expelled-volume-ratio contraction in speed generation, reduced-drag-area gliding under different glide durations, and mantle-aperture-inspired passive inlet valves in assisting refill. This work provides both a robotic implementation of actively deformable cephalopod-like jet propulsion and a unified experimental platform for studying expulsion-gliding-refilling dynamics in pulsed-jet locomotion.
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