The role of symmetry and dissipation in biolocomotion

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DOI10.1137/140970914zbMATH Open1353.37159arXiv1212.1978OpenAlexW1659587755MaRDI QIDQ3465252FDOQ3465252


Authors: Jaap Eldering, H. O. Jacobs Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 January 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1978




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