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Embodied intelligence solves the centipede's dilemma
Adam Dionne, Fabio Giardina, L. Mahadevan
Although commonly associated with limbless animals like snakes and fish, multi-legged organisms like centipedes also utilize undulatory locomotion. Whether these undulations are ac…
Zonal flows and reversals of cortically confined active suspensions
J. S. Yodh, F. Giardina, S. Gokhale +1
At sufficiently high concentrations, motile bacteria suspended in fluids exhibit a range of ordered and disordered collective motions. Here we explore the combined effects of confi…
Collective phototactic robotectonics
Fabio Giardina, S Ganga Prasath, L Mahadevan
Cooperative task execution, a hallmark of eusociality, is enabled by local interactions between the agents and the environment through a dynamically evolving communication signal.…
Modular representation and control of floppy networks
Siheng Chen, Fabio Giardina, Gary P. T. Choi +1
Geometric graph models of systems as diverse as proteins, robots, and mechanical structures from DNA assemblies to architected materials point towards a unified way to represent an…
Models of benthic bipedalism
F. Giardina, L. Mahadevan
Walking is a common bipedal and quadrupedal gait and is often associated with terrestrial and aquatic organisms. Inspired by recent evidence of the neural underpinnings of primitiv…
Trade-off on Sim2Real Learning: Real-world Learning Faster than Simulations
Jingyi Huang, Yizheng Zhang, Fabio Giardina +1
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) experiments are commonly performed in simulated environments due to the tremendous training sample demands from deep neural networks. In contrast,…