Controlled Locomotion of a Minimal Soft Structure by Stick-Slip Nonlinearity

Autor: Barois, Thomas, Boucherie, A., Tadrist, L., Kellay, H.
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters, 2024, 133 (23), pp.238301
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.238301
Popis: We present a locomotion mechanism that uses the stick-slip transition of a soft passive structure with an internal mechanical resonance. The structure is harmonically driven by a global vertical shaking and, because of its resonance dephasing and the threshold response of stick-slip transition, it can either move forward or backward. We establish a relation for the motion acceleration threshold that we experimentally validate. We identify a non-trivial regime close to the resonance with a velocity inversion for a constant excitation frequency and an increasing driving amplitude. We finally show that we can achieve a controlled multi-modal motion by combining multiple internal resonances.
Databáze: arXiv