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Limit cycles for dynamic crawling locomotors with periodic prescribed shape
Paolo Gidoni, Alessandro Margheri, Carlota Rebelo
We study the asymptotic behaviour of a family of dynamic models of crawling locomotion, with the aim of characterizing a gait as a limit property. The locomotors, which might have…
A vanishing inertia analysis for finite dimensional rate-independent systems with nonautonomous dissipation, and an application to soft crawlers
Paolo Gidoni, Filippo Riva
We study the approximation of quasistatic evolutions, formulated as abstract finite-dimensional rate-independent systems, via a vanishing-inertia asymptotic analysis of dynamic evo…
On the genesis of directional friction through bristle-like mediating elements
Paolo Gidoni, Antonio DeSimone
We propose an explanation of the genesis of directional dry friction, as emergent property of the oscillations produced in a bristle-like mediating element by the interaction with…
Crawling on directional surfaces
Paolo Gidoni, Giovanni Noselli, Antonio DeSimone
In this paper we study crawling locomotion based on directional frictional interactions, namely, frictional forces that are sensitive to the sign of the sliding velocity. Surface i…