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Unifying Sidewinding and Rolling: A Wave-Based Framework for Self-Righting in Elongated Limbless and Multi-Legged Robots
Hangjun Liu, Jiarui Geng, Jinxuan Ding +7
Centipede-like robots offer unique locomotion advantages due to their small cross-sectional area for accessing confined spaces, and their redundant legs enhance robustness in clutt…
Terrain characterization and locomotion adaptation in a small-scale lizard-inspired robot
Duncan Andrews, Landon Zimmerman, Evan Martin +2
Unlike their large-scale counterparts, small-scale robots are largely confined to laboratory environments and are rarely deployed in real-world settings. As robot size decreases, r…
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…
Tactile sensing enables vertical obstacle negotiation for elongate many-legged robots
Juntao He, Baxi Chong, Massimiliano Iaschi +3
Many-legged elongated robots show promise for reliable mobility on rugged landscapes. However, most studies on these systems focus on planar motion planning without addressing rapi…
Probabilistic approach to feedback control enhances multi-legged locomotion on rugged landscapes
Juntao He, Baxi Chong, Jianfeng Lin +4
Achieving robust legged locomotion on complex terrains poses challenges due to the high uncertainty in robot-environment interactions. Recent advances in bipedal and quadrupedal ro…
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…
Steering Elongate Multi-legged Robots By Modulating Body Undulation Waves
Esteban Flores, Baxi Chong, Daniel Soto +1
Centipedes exhibit great maneuverability in diverse environments due to their many legs and body-driven control. By leveraging similar morphologies and control strategies, their ro…
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…
Learning to enhance multi-legged robot on rugged landscapes
Juntao He, Baxi Chong, Zhaochen Xu +2
Navigating rugged landscapes poses significant challenges for legged locomotion. Multi-legged robots (those with 6 and greater) offer a promising solution for such terrains, largel…
Roadmap for Animate Matter
Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Maria Guix +37
Humanity has long sought inspiration from nature to innovate materials and devices. As science advances, nature-inspired materials are becoming part of our lives. Animate materials…
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…
Water surface swimming dynamics in lightweight centipedes
Kelimar Diaz, Baxi Chong, Steven Tarr +2
Study of the locomotion of a centipede (L. forficatus) at the air-water interface reveals that it does not predominantly use its 14 leg pairs to locomote; unlike most swimmers whic…
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…
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…
Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulating living systems across scales
Jennifer M Rieser, Baxi Chong, Chaohui Gong +8
Self-propelling organisms locomote via generation of patterns of self-deformation. Despite the diversity of body plans, internal actuation schemes and environments in limbless vert…