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Non-planar snake gaits: from Stigmatic-starts to Sidewinding
N. Charles, R. Chelakkot, M. Gazzola +2
Of the vast variety of animal gaits, one of the most striking is the non-planar undulating motion of a sidewinder. But non-planar gaits are not limited to sidewinders. Here we repo…
Active entanglement enables stochastic, topological grasping
Kaitlyn Becker, Clark Teeple, Nicholas Charles +5
Grasping, in both biological and engineered mechanisms, can be highly sensitive to the gripper and object morphology, as well as perception, and motion planning. Here we circumvent…
Combing a double helix
Thomas Bolton Plumb-Reyes, Nicholas Charles, L. Mahadevan
Combing hair involves brushing away the topological tangles in a collective curl. Using a combination of experiment and computation, we study this problem that naturally links topo…
Topology, geometry and mechanics of strongly stretched and twisted filaments
Nicholas Charles, Mattia Gazzola, L. Mahadevan
Soft elastic filaments that can be stretched, bent and twisted exhibit a range of topologically and geometrically complex morphologies that include plectonemes, solenoids, knot-lik…