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Emergence of the advancing neuromechanical phase in a resistive force dominated medium
Yang Ding, Sarah S. Sharpe, Kurt Wiesenfeld +1
Undulatory locomotion, a gait in which thrust is produced in the opposite direction of a traveling wave of body bending, is a common mode of propulsion used by animals in fluids, o…
Climbing, falling and jamming during ant locomotion in confined environments
Nick Gravish, Daria Monaenkova, Michael A. D. Goodisman +1
Locomotion emerges from effective interactions of an individual with its environment. Principles of biological terrestrial locomotion have been discovered on unconfined vertical an…
Multi-functional foot use during running in the zebra-tailed lizard (Callisaurus draconoides)
Chen Li, S. Tonia Hsieh, Daniel I. Goldman
A diversity of animals that run on solid, level, flat, non-slip surfaces appear to bounce on their legs; elastic elements in the limbs can store and return energy during each step.…
The effect of limb kinematics on the speed of a legged robot on granular media
Chen Li, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Haldun Komsuoglu +1
Achieving effective locomotion on diverse terrestrial substrates can require subtle changes of limb kinematics. Biologically inspired legged robots (physical models of organisms) h…
A Terradynamics of Legged Locomotion on Granular Media
Chen Li, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel I. Goldman
The theories of aero- and hydrodynamics predict animal movement and device design in air and water through the computation of lift, drag, and thrust forces. Although models of terr…
Geometric visualization of self-propulsion in a complex medium
Ross L. Hatton, Yang Ding, Howie Choset +1
Combining geometric mechanics theory, laboratory robotic experiment and numerical simulation, we study the locomotion in granular media (GM) of the simplest non-inertial swimmer, t…