5 papers
Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments
Donoven Dortilus, Tianyu Wang, Galen Tunnicliffe +2
Limbless robots offer exceptional mobility in confined and cluttered environments due to their slender bodies and their ability to exploit body-terrain interactions. Recent designs…
Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot
Tianyu Wang, Matthew Fernandez, Galen Tunnicliffe +10
Aquatic robots have expanded human access to underwater environments, yet many underwater spaces contain obstacles that can disrupt open-water locomotion. In "hydro-cluttered" envi…
A Robust Antenna Provides Tactile Feedback in a Multi-legged Robot
Zhaochen J. Xu, Juntao He, Delfin Aydan +5
Multi-legged elongate robots hold promise for maneuvering through complex environments. Prior work has demonstrated that reliable locomotion can be achieved using open-loop body un…
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…
Collision Induced Binding and Transport of Shape Changing Robot Pairs
Akash Vardhan, Ram Avinery, Hosain Bagheri +7
We report in experiment and simulation the spontaneous formation of dynamically bound pairs of shape changing robots undergoing locally repulsive collisions. These physical `glider…