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Journals
- Rieser, J.M.*, Chong, B.*, Gong, C., Astley, H.C., Schiebel, P.E., Diaz, K., Pierce, C., Lu, H., Hatton, R.L., Choset, H. and Goldman, D.I., 2024. Geometric phase predicts locomotion performance in undulating living systems across scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences e2320517121.
- Wang, T., Pierce, C., Kojouharov, V., Chong, B., Diaz, K., Lu, H. and Goldman, D.I., 2023. Mechanical Intelligence Simplifies Control in Terrestrial Limbless Locomotion. Science Robotics 8.85 (2023): eadi2243.
- Chong B, Wang T, Bo L, Li S, Muthukrishnan PC, He J, Irvine D, Choset H, Blekherman G, Goldman DI. Optimizing contact patterns for robot locomotion via geometric mechanics. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2023 Aug 11:02783649231188387.
[Link] - Chong B, He J, Soto D, Wang T, Irvine D, Blekherman G, Goldman DI. Multi-legged matter transport: A framework for locomotion on noisy landscapes. Science. 2023 May 5;380(6644):509-15.
[Link] - Chong B, He J, Li S, Erickson E, Diaz K, Wang T, Soto D, Goldman DI. Self-propulsion via slipping: Frictional swimming in multilegged locomotors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 Mar 14;120(11):e2213698120.
[Link] - Diaz K, Erickson E, Chong B, Soto D, Goldman DI. Active and passive mechanics for rugose terrain traversal in centipedes. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2023 Jan 19.
[Link] - Chong B, Wang T, Erickson E, Bergmann PJ, Goldman DI. Coordinating tiny limbs and long bodies: Geometric mechanics of lizard terrestrial swimming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Jul 5;119(27):e2118456119.
[Link] - Chong B*, Aydin YO*, Rieser JM, Sartoretti G, Wang T, Whitman J, Kaba A, Aydin E, McFarland C, Cruz KD, Rankin JW. A general locomotion control framework for multi-legged locomotors. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 2022 Jun 16;17(4):046015.
[Link] - Chong B*, Wang T*, Rieser JM, Lin B, Kaba A, Blekherman G, Choset H, Goldman DI. Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2021 Dec;40(12-14):1547-62.
[Link] - Chong B, Aydin YO, Gong C, Sartoretti G, Wu Y, Rieser JM, Xing H, Schiebel PE, Rankin JW, Michel KB, Nicieza A. Coordination of lateral body bending and leg movements for sprawled posture quadrupedal locomotion. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2021 Apr;40(4-5):747-63.
[Link] - Wang T, Lin B, Chong B, Whitman J, Travers M, Goldman DI, Blekherman G, Choset H. Reconstruction of backbone curves for snake robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2021 Feb 25;6(2):3264-70.
[Link] - Astley HC, Mendelson III JR, Dai J, Gong C, Chong B, Rieser JM, Schiebel PE, Sharpe SS, Hatton RL, Choset H, Goldman DI. Surprising simplicities and syntheses in limbless self-propulsion in sand. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2020 Mar 1;223(5):jeb103564.
[Link] - Chong B, Gong Z, Lin Y. Modeling the adhesive contact between cells and a wavy extracellular matrix mediated by receptor–ligand interactions. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 2017 Jan 1;84(1).
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Peer Reviewed Conference Paper:
- Chong, B., Wang, T., Irvine, D., Kojouharov, V., Lin, B., Choset, H., Goldman, D. I., & Blekherman, G. (2023). Gait design for limbless obstacle aided locomotion using geometric mechanics. In Robotics: Science and Systems 2023 Jul.
[Link] - Wang T*, Chong B*, Deng Y, Fu R, Choset H, Goldman DI. Generalized omega turn gait enables agile limbless robot turning in complex environments. In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022 May 23 (pp. 01-07). IEEE.
[Link] - Chong B, Wang T, Lin B, Li S, Choset H, Blekherman G, Goldman D. Moving sidewinding forward: optimizing contact patterns for limbless robots via geometric mechanics. In Robotics: science and systems 2021 Jul (Vol. 17). Best Paper Award Finalists, 4 out of 92.
[Link] - Chong B, Wang T, Rieser J, Kaba A, Choset H, Goldman D. Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of limbless robots. Robotics: Science and Systems 2020. 2020 Jul.
[Link] - Wang T*, Chong B*, Diaz K, Whitman J, Lu H, Travers M, Goldman DI, Choset H. The omega turn: A biologically-inspired turning strategy for elongated limbless robots. In2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020 Oct 24 (pp. 7766-7771). IEEE.
[Link] - Lin B*, Chong B*, Ozkan-Aydin Y, Aydin E, Choset H, Goldman DI, Blekherman G. Optimizing coordinate choice for locomotion systems with toroidal shape spaces. In2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020 Oct 24 (pp. 7501-7506). IEEE.
[Link] - Ozkan-Aydin Y, Chong B, Aydin E, Goldman DI. A systematic approach to creating terrain-capable hybrid soft/hard myriapod robots. In2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2020 May 15 (pp. 156-163). IEEE.
[Link] - Chong B, Ozkan Aydin Y, Sartoretti G, Rieser JM, Gong C, Xing H, Choset H, Goldman DI. A hierarchical geometric framework to design locomotive gaits for highly articulated robots. In Robotics: science and systems 2019 Jan.
[Link] - Chong B, Aydin YO, Gong C, Sartoretti G, Wu Y, Rieser JM, Xing H, Rankin JW, Michel K, Nicieza AG, Hutchinson J. Coordination of back bending and leg movements for quadrupedal locomotion. In Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (Vol. 20).
[Link] - Gong C, Ren Z, Whitman J, Grover J, Chong B, Choset H. Geometric motion planning for systems with toroidal and cylindrical shape spaces. In Dynamic Systems and Control Conference 2018 Sep 30 (Vol. 51913, p. V003T32A013). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
[Link] - Ozkan Aydin Y, Chong B, Gong C, Rieser JM, Rankin JW, Michel K, Nicieza AG, Hutchinson J, Choset H, Goldman DI. Geometric mechanics applied to tetrapod locomotion on granular media. InBiomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 6th International Conference, Living Machines 2017, Stanford, CA, USA, July 26–28, 2017, Proceedings 6 2017 (pp. 595-603). Springer International Publishing.
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