February 15, 2015 / by George Council / In news
We present some rich new complex gaits in the simple walking model with upper body by Wisse et al. We first show that the stable gait found by Wisse et al. may become chaotic via period-doubling bifurcations.
Read moreFebruary 05, 2015 / by George Council / In news
A paper that explores the flight pattersn of migrating geese over the Himalayan Mountains. Beyond presenting a measured result that disputes prior hypothesis, it also illustrates that geese are demonstrating a behavior that is very 'non-engineer-like' - humans would never build a passanger aircraft that varies altitude so dramatically
Read moreFebruary 05, 2015 / by George Council / In news
A paper that might be interesting to compare to the lab's own investigation in how to detail with parameter uncertainty in hybrid systems. Mitigating the influence of unknown parameter changes in a system is a major concern in locomotion, and being able to extend this papers result to a hybrid system could provide a new tool
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