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Posture selection in active elastic filaments
Adam Pearl, Ludwig A. Hoffmann, L. Mahadevan
Posture control in slender bodies such as snakes and eels arises from the interplay between passive deformation, active internal actuation, and task-level constraints. We formulate…
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How to grow a straight filament
Ludwig A. Hoffmann, L. Mahadevan
How can a growing biological filament remain straight despite stochastic fluctuations in growth? Motivated by filamentary structures that develop reproducibly across biological sys…