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Understanding Legged Crawling for Soft-Robotics
Benny Gamus, Lior Salem, Amir D. Gat +1
Crawling is a common locomotion mechanism in soft robots and nonskeletal animals. In this work we propose modeling soft-robotic legged locomotion by approximating it with an equiva…
On the inflation and deflation dynamics of liquid-filled, hyperelastic balloons
Dotan Ilssar, Amir D. Gat
We derive a reduced-order model describing the inflation and deflation dynamics of a liquid-filled hyperelastic balloon, focusing on inviscid laminar flow and the extensional motio…
Leveraging viscous peeling in soft actuators and reconfigurable microchannel networks
Lior Salem, Benny Gamus, Yizhar Or +1
The research fields of microfluidics and soft robotics both involve complex small-scale internal channel networks, embedded within a solid structure. This work examines leveraging…
Non-uniform electro-osmotic flow drives fluid-structure instability
Evgeniy Boyko, Ran Eshel, Amir D. Gat +1
We demonstrate the existence of a fluid-structure instability arising from the interaction of electro-osmotic flow with an elastic substrate. Considering the case of flow within a…
Forced motion of a cylinder within a liquid-filled elastic tube
Amit Vurgaft, Shai B. Elbaz, Amir D. Gat
This work analyzes the viscous flow and elastic deformation created by the forced axial motion of a rigid cylinder within an elastic liquid-filled tube. The examined configuration…
Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators Via Interaction Between Bi-Stability and Viscosity
Eran Ben-Haim, Lior Salem, Yizhar Or +1
A leading concept in soft robotics actuation, as well as in microfluidics applications such as valves in lab-on-a-chip devices, is applying pressurized flow in cavities embedded wi…