3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited
A catastrophic approach to designing interacting hysterons
Gentian Muhaxheri, Victoria Antonetti, Christian D. Santangelo
We present a framework for analyzing collections of interacting hysterons through the lens of catastrophe theory. By modeling hysteron dynamics as a gradient system, we show how to…
cs.RO2025
Active Learning Design: Modeling Force Output for Axisymmetric Soft Pneumatic Actuators
Gregory M. Campbell, Gentian Muhaxheri, Leonardo Ferreira Guilhoto +4
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPA) made from elastomeric materials can provide large strain and large force. The behavior of locally strain-restricted hyperelastic materials under infl…
cond-mat.soft2025
Bifurcations of inflating balloons and interacting hysterons
Gentian Muhaxheri, Christian D. Santangelo
While many materials exhibit a complex, hysteretic response to external driving, there has been a surge of interest in how the complex dynamics of internal materials states can be…