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Coordinating Spinal and Limb Dynamics for Enhanced Sprawling Robot Mobility
Merve Atasever, Ali Okhovat, Azhang Nazaripouya +4
Sprawling locomotion in vertebrates, particularly salamanders, demonstrates how body undulation and spinal mobility enhance stability, maneuverability, and adaptability across comp…
A variational approach to geometric mechanics for undulating robotic locomotion
Sean Even, Patrick S. Martinez, Cora Keogh +3
Limbless organisms of all sizes use undulating patterns of self-deformation to locomote. Geometric mechanics, which maps deformations to motions, provides a powerful framework to f…
Embodied Design for Enhanced Flipper-Based Locomotion in Complex Terrains
Nnamdi Chikere, John McElroy, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
Robots are becoming increasingly essential for traversing complex environments such as disaster areas, extraterrestrial terrains, and marine environments. Yet, their potential is o…
Machine Learning-Driven Burrowing with a Snake-Like Robot
Sean Even, Holden Gordon, Hoeseok Yang +1
Subterranean burrowing is inherently difficult for robots because of the high forces experienced as well as the high amount of uncertainty in this domain. Because of the difficulty…
Adjustbot: Bio-Inspired Quadruped Robot with Adjustable Posture and Undulated Body for Challenging Terradynamic Tasks
Saurav Kumar Dutta, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
The ability to modify morphology in response to environmental changes represents a highly advantageous feature in biological organisms, facilitating their adaptation to diverse env…
Locomotion and Obstacle Avoidance of a Worm-like Soft Robot
Sean Even, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
This paper presents a soft earthworm robot that is capable of both efficient locomotion and obstacle avoidance. The robot is designed to replicate the unique locomotion mechanisms…
The Effect of Tail Stiffness on a Sprawling Quadruped Locomotion
Josh Buckley, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
A distinctive feature of quadrupeds that is integral to their locomotion is the tail. Tails serve many purposes in biological systems including propulsion, counterbalance, and stab…
Stable Real-Time Feedback Control of a Pneumatic Soft Robot
Sean Even, Tongjia Zheng, Hai Lin +1
Soft actuators offer compliant and safe interaction with an unstructured environment compared to their rigid counterparts. However, control of these systems is often challenging be…
Design of Soft, Modular Appendages for a Bio-inspired Multi-Legged Terrestrial Robot
Abu Nayem Md. Asraf Siddiquee, Benjamin Colfer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
Soft robots have the ability to adapt to their environment, which makes them suitable for use in disaster areas and agricultural fields, where their mobility is constrained by comp…
Locomotion without force, and impulse via dissipation: Robotic swimming in curved space via geometric phase
Shengkai Li, Tianyu Wang, Velin H. Kojouharov +5
Locomotion by shape changes (spermatozoon swimming, snake slithering, bird flapping) or gas expulsion (rocket firing) is assumed to require environmental interaction, due to conser…
Field-mediated locomotor dynamics on highly deformable surfaces
Shengkai Li, Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Charles Xiao +6
In many systems motion occurs on deformed and deformable surfaces, setting up the possibility for dynamical interactions solely mediated by the coupling of the entities with their…
A fast and practical grid based algorithm for point-feature label placement problem
Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Kemal Leblebicioglu
Point-feature label placement (PFLP) is a major area of interest within the filed of automated cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and computer graphics. The objecti…