ArticleeLife2020
Mitigating memory effects during undulatory locomotion on hysteretic materials.
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- Aubry-André localization transition for an active undulator.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Effect of Surface Morphology and Internal Structure on the Tribological Behaviors of Snake Scales fromBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulating living systems across scales.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Self-propulsion via slipping: Frictional swimming in multilegged locomotors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Mechanistic framework for reduced-order models in soft materials: Application to three-dimensional granular intrusion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: Geometric mechanics of lizard terrestrial swimming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Friction modulation in limbless, three-dimensional gaits and heterogeneous terrains.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Surprising simplicity in the modeling of dynamic granular intrusion.Science advances · 2021Article
- Functional consequences of convergently evolved microscopic skin features on snake locomotion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
While terrestrial locomotors often contend with permanently deformable substrates like sand, soil, and mud, principles of motion on such materials are lacking. We study the desert-specialist shovel-nosed snake traversing a model sand and find body inertia is negligible despite rapid transit and speed dependent granular reaction forces. New surface resistive force theory (RFT) calculation reveals how wave shape in these snakes minimizes material memory effects and optimizes escape performance given physiological power limitations. RFT explains the morphology and waveform-dependent performance of a diversity of non-sand-specialist snakes but overestimates the capability of those snakes which suffer high lateral slipping of the body. Robophysical experiments recapitulate aspects of these failure-prone snakes and elucidate how re-encountering previously deformed material hinders performance. This study reveals how memory effects stymied the locomotion of a diversity of snakes in our previous studies (Marvi et al., 2014) and indicates avenues to improve all-terrain robots.
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