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Title: Chaos in Non-Euclidean Geometries Arising in Mechanics
Author: BHATTACHARYA, TAPOBRATA
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Mathematics
Description: Chaotic systems are a class of nonlinear dynamical systems that have captured the attention of mathematicians and engineers for long. Even though chaotic systems are deterministic in nature, long term prediction of behavior of such systems is diff...

Title: FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Author: Abrajan Guerrero, Rodrigo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Robotics
Description: In this dissertation we study the interactions between free bodies and unsteady viscous flows, with particular interest in locomotion and in particle transport in streaming flows.For self-propelling bodies, we present systems with two different me...

Title: Self-Propelling Robotic Hydrofoil Arrays: Mechanics, Efficiency, and Optimization
Author: Bhansali, Rakshit
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Robotics
Description: Mathematical models for the self-propulsion of articulated bodies in fluids at low Reynolds number can be interpreted geometrically in terms of connections in principal bundles. Visualization of the local curvature of a connection in this context ...

Title: The mechanics and control of robotic systems exploiting viscous phenomena for planar locomotion
Author: Hassing, Peter
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Viscous phenomena can be used to aid in the locomotion and control of robotic systems. With the aid of Lagrangian reduction techniques, it is shown that dissipation can be used to model nonholonomic, holonomic, and kinematically constrained system...