The role of symmetry and dissipation in biolocomotion

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Abstract: In this paper we illustrate the potential role which relative limit cycles may play in biolocomotion. We do this by describing, in great detail, an elementary example of reduction of a lightly dissipative system modeling crawling-type locomotion in 3D. The symmetry group SE(2) is the set of rigid transformations of the horizontal (ground) plane. Given a time-periodic perturbation, the system will admit a relative limit cycle whereupon each period is related to the previous by a fixed translation and rotation along the ground. This toy model identifies how symmetry reduction and dissipation can conspire to create robust behavior in crawling, and possibly walking, locomotion.




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