Abstract High-aspect-ratio (HAR) airplane wings have higher energy efficiency and present
an economical alternative to standard airplane wings. HAR wings have a high span and a …

Highly flexible structures often exhibit multiple low-frequency modes of vibration in multiple
directions that vibrate with relatively high amplitudes. As a result, new two-dimensional …

Many different coordinate formulations have been established to describe the position of
multi-body robot models, but the impact of this choice on the tractability of trajectory …

It has been shown that changing the coordinates describing a multi-body system to use
absolute rather than relative angles produces a significant improvement in the tractability of …

A concise method has been formulated for identifying a set of forces needed to constrain the
behavior of a mechanical system, modeled as a set of particles and rigid bodies, when it is …

In this paper we develop bond-graph representations for ideal mechanical constraints, both
embedded and adjoined, by stating and applying the principle of virtual power, at the …

For legged robots to move safely in unpredictable environments, they need to be
manoeuvrable, but transient motions such as acceleration, deceleration and turning have …

Although it is known that correct dynamical equations of motion for a nonholonomic system
cannot be obtained from a Lagrangean that has been augmented with a sum of the …

Cheetahs are incredibly fast, manoeuvrable and highly dynamic, but relatively little is
understood about how this is achieved. Thus, understanding their abilities is a subject of …

Reduction of a differential algebraic equation (DAE) system to an ordinary differential
equation system (ODE) is an important step in solving the DAE numerically. When the ODE …