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Agile asymmetric multi-legged locomotion: contact planning via geometric mechanics and spin model duality
Jackson Habala, Gabriel B. Margolis, Tianyu Wang +8
Legged robot research is presently focused on bipedal or quadrupedal robots, despite capabilities to build robots with many more legs to potentially improve locomotion performance.…
Optimal swimming with body compliance in an overdamped medium
Jianfeng Lin, Tianyu Wang, Baxi Chong +3
Elongate animals and robots use undulatory body waves to locomote through diverse environments. Geometric mechanics provides a framework to model and optimize such systems in highl…
The Omega Turn: A General Turning Template for Elongate Robots
Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Kelimar Diaz +12
Elongate limbless robots have the potential to locomote through tightly packed spaces for applications such as search-and-rescue and industrial inspections. The capability to effec…
Robust control for multi-legged elongate robots in noisy environments
Baxi Chong, Juntao He, Daniel Irvine +8
Modern two and four legged robots exhibit impressive mobility on complex terrain, largely attributed to advancement in learning algorithms. However, these systems often rely on hig…
Effective self-righting strategies for elongate multi-legged robots
Erik Teder, Baxi Chong, Juntao He +4
Centipede-like robots offer an effective and robust solution to navigation over complex terrain with minimal sensing. However, when climbing over obstacles, such multi-legged robot…
Addition of a peristaltic wave improves multi-legged locomotion performance on complex terrains
Massimiliano Iaschi, Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang +5
Characterized by their elongate bodies and relatively simple legs, multi-legged robots have the potential to locomote through complex terrains for applications such as search-and-r…
AquaMILR: Mechanical intelligence simplifies control of undulatory robots in cluttered fluid environments
Tianyu Wang, Nishanth Mankame, Matthew Fernandez +2
While undulatory swimming of elongate limbless robots has been extensively studied in open hydrodynamic environments, less research has been focused on limbless locomotion in compl…
Anisotropic body compliance facilitates robotic sidewinding in complex environments
Velin Kojouharov, Tianyu Wang, Matthew Fernandez +2
Sidewinding, a locomotion strategy characterized by the coordination of lateral and vertical body undulations, is frequently observed in rattlesnakes and has been successfully reco…
Robust self-propulsion in sand using simply controlled vibrating cubes
Bangyuan Liu, Tianyu Wang, Velin Kojouharov +2
Much of the Earth and many surfaces of extraterrestrial bodies are composed of in-cohesive particle matter. Locomoting on granular terrain is challenging for common robotic devices…
Multi-legged matter transport: a framework for locomotion on noisy landscapes
Baxi Chong, Juntao He, Daniel Soto +4
While the transport of matter by wheeled vehicles or legged robots can be guaranteed in engineered landscapes like roads or rails, locomotion prediction in complex environments lik…
Mechanical Intelligence Simplifies Control in Terrestrial Limbless Locomotion
Tianyu Wang, Christopher Pierce, Velin Kojouharov +4
Limbless locomotors, from microscopic worms to macroscopic snakes, traverse complex, heterogeneous natural environments typically using undulatory body wave propagation. Theoretica…
Gait design for limbless obstacle aided locomotion using geometric mechanics
Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Daniel Irvine +5
Limbless robots have the potential to maneuver through cluttered environments that conventional robots cannot traverse. As illustrated in their biological counterparts such as snak…
Geometry of contact: contact planning for multi-legged robots via spin models duality
Baxi Chong, Di Luo, Tianyu Wang +5
Contact planning is crucial in locomoting systems.Specifically, appropriate contact planning can enable versatile behaviors (e.g., sidewinding in limbless locomotors) and facilitat…
Self-propulsion via slipping: frictional swimming in multi-legged locomotors
Baxi Chong, Juntao He, Shengkai Li +5
Locomotion is typically studied either in continuous media where bodies and legs experience forces generated by the flowing medium, or on solid substrates dominated by friction. In…
Generalized Omega Turn Gait Enables Agile Limbless Robot Turning in Complex Environments
Tianyu Wang, Baxi Chong, Yuelin Deng +3
Reorientation (turning in plane) plays a critical role for all robots in any field application, especially those that in confined spaces. While important, reorientation remains a r…
Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: geometric mechanics of diverse undulatory lizard locomotion
Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Eva Erickson +2
Although typically possessing four limbs and short bodies, lizards have evolved a diversity of body plans, from short-bodied and fully-limbed to elongate and nearly limbless. Such…
Locomotion without force, and impulse via dissipation: Robotic swimming in curved space via geometric phase
Shengkai Li, Tianyu Wang, Velin H. Kojouharov +5
Locomotion by shape changes (spermatozoon swimming, snake slithering, bird flapping) or gas expulsion (rocket firing) is assumed to require environmental interaction, due to conser…
A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors
Baxi Chong, Yasemin O. Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser +13
Serially connected robots are promising candidates for performing tasks in confined spaces such as search-and-rescue in large-scale disasters. Such robots are typically limbless, a…
Reconstruction of Backbone Curves for Snake Robots
Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Baxi Chong +5
Snake robots composed of alternating single-axis pitch and yaw joints have many internal degrees of freedom, which make them capable of versatile three-dimensional locomotion. In m…
Directional Compliance in Obstacle-Aided Navigation for Snake Robots
Tianyu Wang, Julian Whitman, Matthew Travers +1
Snake robots have the potential to maneuver through tightly packed and complex environments. One challenge in enabling them to do so is the complexity in determining how to coordin…