2 papers
cs.RO2026
Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control
Daehyun Choi, Ian Bergerson, Hengjia Zhu +2
We present a palm-scale (65 mm, 34 g) swim-and-breach robot platform. Two vertically stacked propellers provide both propulsion and differential-thrust pitch control under a propor…
physics.flu-dyn2026
Squid-inspired soft superpropulsion
Daehyun Choi, Paras Singh, Ian Bergerson +12
Squid span four orders of magnitude in size yet rely on pulsed jets. We show that the funnel (siphon) is a compliant nozzle whose dilation and recoil lag mantle contraction, storin…