Connection Vector Fields and Optimized Coordinates for Swimming Systems at Low and High Reynolds Numbers
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Systems and Control Conference (DSCC '10), Vol. 1, pp. 817 - 824, September, 2010
Abstract
Several efforts have recently been made to relate the displacement of swimming three-link systems over strokes to geometric quantities of the strokes. While this approach has been successful for finding net rotations, noncommutivity concerns have prevented it from working for net translations. Our recent results on other locomoting systems have shown that the degree of this noncommutivity is dependent on the coordinates used to describe the problem, and that it can be greatly mitigated by an optimal choice of coordinates. Here, we extend the benefits of this optimal-coordinate approach to the analysis of swimming at the extremes of low and high Reynolds numbers.
BibTeX
@conference{Hatton-2010-121463,author = {R. Hatton and H. Choset},
title = {Connection Vector Fields and Optimized Coordinates for Swimming Systems at Low and High Reynolds Numbers},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ASME Systems and Control Conference (DSCC '10)},
year = {2010},
month = {September},
volume = {1},
pages = {817 - 824},
}
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