Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Yeonsu Jung, Thomas Plumb-Reyes, Hao-Yu Greg Lin, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: Random packings of stiff rods are self-supporting mechanical structures stabilized by their geometrical and topological complexity. To understand why, we deploy X-ray computerized tomography to unveil the structure of the packing. This allows us to define […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Yeonsu Jung, Thomas Plumb-Reyes, Hao-Yu Greg Lin, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: Random packings of stiff rods are self-supporting mechanical structures stabilized by long range interactions induced by contacts. To understand the geometrical and topological complexity of the packings, we deploy X-ray computerized tomography to unveil the structure […]
Kavli Affiliate: Radhika Nagpal | First 5 Authors: Darren Chiu, Radhika Nagpal, Bahar Haghighat, , | Summary: Robot swarms can be tasked with a variety of automated sensing and inspection applications in aerial, aquatic, and surface environments. In this paper, we study a simplified two-outcome surface inspection task. We task a group of robots to […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Alexander J. Dear, Georg Meisl, Sara Linse, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: The development of solutions to the kinetics of homomolecular self-assembly into amyloid fibrils using fixed-point methods, and their subsequent application to the analysis of in vitro kinetic experiments, has led to numerous advances in our understanding […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vinothan N. Manoharan | First 5 Authors: Jessica H. Sun, Abigail Plummer, Grace H. Zhang, David R. Nelson, Vinothan N. Manoharan | Summary: Conical surfaces pose an interesting challenge to crystal growth: a crystal growing on a cone can wrap around and meet itself at different radii. We use a disk-packing algorithm to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Jacob Page, Joe Holey, Michael P. Brenner, Rich R. Kerswell, | Summary: Convolutional autoencoders are used to deconstruct the changing dynamics of two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow as $Re$ is increased from weakly chaotic flow at $Re=40$ to a chaotic state dominated by a domain-filling vortex pair at […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Alexander J. Dear, L. Mahadevan, , , | Summary: Perturbation theory plays a central role in the approximate solution of nonlinear differential equations. The resultant series expansions are usually divergent and require treatment by singular perturbation methods to generate uniformly valid solutions. However, applying these methods is […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Alexander J. Dear, L. Mahadevan, , , | Summary: Singular perturbation theory plays a central role in the approximate solution of nonlinear differential equations. However, applying these methods is a subtle art owing to the lack of globally applicable algorithms. Inspired by the fact that all exact […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Petur Bryde, Ian C. Davenport, L. Mahadevan, , | Summary: Kiiking is an extreme sport in which athletes alternate between standing and squatting to pump a standing swing till it is inverted and completes a rotation. A minimal model of the sport may be cast in terms […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert J. Wood | First 5 Authors: Alaa Maalouf, Ninad Jadhav, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Makram Chahine, Daniel M. Vogt | Summary: Tracking and following objects of interest is critical to several robotics use cases, ranging from industrial automation to logistics and warehousing, to healthcare and security. In this paper, we present a robotic […]