3 papers
cs.RO2026
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…
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…