3 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
Continuous body 3-D reconstruction of limbless animals
Qiyuan Fu, Thomas W. Mitchel, Jin Seob Kim +2
Limbless animals such as snakes, limbless lizards, worms, eels, and lampreys move their slender, long bodies in three dimensions to traverse diverse environments. Accurately quanti…
physics.bio-ph2025
Lateral oscillation and body compliance help snakes and snake robots stably traverse large, smooth obstacles
Qiyuan Fu, Sean W. Gart, Thomas W. Mitchel +3
Snakes can move through almost any terrain. Similarly, snake robots hold the promise as a versatile platform to traverse complex environments like earthquake rubble. Unlike snake l…
physics.bio-ph2025
Snakes partition their body to traverse large steps stably
Sean W. Gart, Thomas W. Mitchel, Chen Li
Many snakes live in deserts, forests, and river valleys and traverse challenging 3-D terrain like rocks, felled trees, and rubble, with obstacles as large as themselves and variabl…