3 papers
cs.RO2025
The Omega Turn: A General Turning Template for Elongate Robots
Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Kelimar Diaz +12
Elongate limbless robots have the potential to locomote through tightly packed spaces for applications such as search-and-rescue and industrial inspections. The capability to effec…
physics.bio-ph2025
Dispersion Relations for Active Undulators in Overdamped Environments
Christopher J. Pierce, Daniel Irvine, Lucinda Peng +3
Organisms that locomote by propagating waves of body bending can maintain performance across heterogeneous environments by modifying their gait frequency or wavenumber . We…
physics.bio-ph2025
Aubry-André Localization Transition for an Active Undulator
Christopher J. Pierce, Tianyu Wang, Dmitri Kalinin +2
The transport of deformable self-propelling objects like bacteria, worms, snakes, and robots through heterogeneous environments is poorly understood. In this paper, we use experime…