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The movies show the motion arising from reciprocal shape changes in a crawler with inclined bristles, while no appreciable net displacement is visible when the bristles are vertical (Part I). The numerical simulations reproduce this behaviour (Part II).
This research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A in the paper: 'A robotic crawler exploiting directional frictional interactions: experiments, numerics and derivation of a reduced model' by Noselli et al. The doi link for the article is rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspa.2014.0333.
The movies show the motion arising from reciprocal shape changes in a crawler with inclined bristles, while no appreciable net displacement is visible when the bristles are vertical (Part I). The numerical simulations reproduce this behaviour (Part II).
This research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A in the paper: 'A robotic crawler exploiting directional frictional interactions: experiments, numerics and derivation of a reduced model' by Noselli et al. The doi link for the article is rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspa.2014.0333.
