This paper presents a framework for simulating the flight dynamics and control strategies of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The framework consists of five main components: an articulated rigid-body simulation, a model of the aerodynamic forces andmoments, a sensory systemsmodel, a controlmodel, andan environmentmodel. In the rigid-body simulation the fly is represented by a system of th...

A new boundary force is proposed to solve rigid body interaction in SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics). The new boundary force is impulse-based rather than potential-based. The impulse is converted to a boundary force with a fundamental observation that the impulse is a momentum change which is a result of a force acting on an object during a time interval. Our new impulse-based boundary for...

Abstract A two-field version of the floating frame-of-reference approach is developed to describe dynamics a flexible body in case motion uniformly rotating frame. Full decoupling kinetic energy results from splitting into rigid-body modes center mass and velocity field orthogonal them. The equations are canonical variational expression which displacement fields play independent roles. They tur...

The design of retaining walls depends on the magnitude of active pressure exerted from the backfill. Therefore, estimating the scale of this pressure is a fundamental factor in the design. In this study, to assess the active earth pressure, a rigid retaining wall was built capable of translating and/or rotating with adjustable speed. Further, several physical tests were conducte...

The State-Dependant Riccati Equation method has been frequently used to design suboptimal controllers applied to nonlinear dynamic systems. Different methods for local stability analysis of SDRE controlled systems of order greater than two such as the attitude dynamics of a general rigid body have been extended in literature; however, it is still difficult to show global stability properties of...

In the present paper we describe the dynamics of the revised rigid body, the dynamics of the rigid body with distributed delays and the dynamics of the fractional rigid body. We analyze the stationary states for given values of the rigid body’s parameters. Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A33, 53C63,58A05, 58A40.

Performance and reliability of any rotating machine can be studied by proper dynamic analysis of the machine. In this regard, this paper presents the method to study the dynamic response of the shaft of a Pelton turbine due to the impact of water jet. Equations of motion for the bending vibration of Pelton turbine assembly, in two transverse directions, is developed by using Lagrange equation o...

Abstract: This paper focuses on a dolphin-like swimming hydrodynamics problem for a biomimetic amphibious robot capable of both fishand dolphin-like swimming modes. A Lagrangian reduction has been established in terms of rigid-body dynamics. For robust gait control, a central pattern generator-based approach is incorporated into the model serving as explicit joint angle control. Consequently, a...

Normal-mode analysis (NMA) can be used to generate multiple structural variants of a given template model, thereby increasing the chance of finding the molecular-replacement solution. Here, it is shown that it is also possible to directly refine the amplitudes of the normal modes against experimental data (X-ray or cryo-EM), generalizing rigid-body refinement methods by adding just a few additi...

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