Air-to-land transitions: from wingless animals and plant seeds to shuttlecocks and bio-inspired robots

VM Ortega-Jimenez, A Jusufi, CE Brown… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations of wingless animals, including jumping nematodes, springtails, insects,
and wingless vertebrates like geckos, snakes, and salamanders, have shown that their …

Morphologically adaptive crash landing on a wall: soft‐bodied models of gliding geckos with varying material stiffnesses

M Chellapurath, P Khandelwal, T Rottier… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Landing on vertical surfaces in challenging environments is a critical ability for multimodal
robots—it allows the robot to hold position above the ground without expending energy to …

Undulatory swimming performance explored with a biorobotic fish and measured by soft sensors and particle image velocimetry

F Schwab, F Wiesemüller, C Mucignat… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Due to the difficulty of manipulating muscle activation in live, freely swimming fish, a
thorough examination of the body kinematics, propulsive performance, and muscle activity …

Learning control for body caudal undulation with soft sensory feedback

F Schwab, M El Arayshi, S Rezaei, H Sprumont… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Soft bio-mimetic robotics is a growing field of research that seeks to close the gap with
animal robustness and adaptability where conventional robots fall short. The embedding of …

Convergent evolution in silico reveals shape and dynamic principles of directed locomotion

RB Biazzi, A Fujita, DY Takahashi - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Active, directed locomotion on the ground is present in many phylogenetically distant
species. Bilateral symmetry and modularity of the body are common traits often associated …

Convergent evolution in silico reveals shape and dynamic principles of directed locomotion on the ground

RB Biazzi - 2022 - teses.usp.br
Active, directed locomotion on the ground is present in many phylogenetically distant
species. Bilateral symmetry and modularity of the body are common traits often associated …