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Toward Task Capable Active Matter: Learning to Avoid Clogging in Confined Collectives via Collisions
Kehinde O. Aina, Ram Avinery, Hui-Shun Kuan +3
Social organisms which construct nests consisting of tunnels and chambers necessarily navigate confined and crowded conditions. Unlike low-density collectives like bird flocks and…
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…
Probing hydrodynamic fluctuation-induced forces with an oscillating robot
Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto +1
We study the dynamics of an oscillating, free-floating robot that generates radially expanding gravity capillary waves at a fluid surface. In open water, the device does not self-p…
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…