Biolocomotion
Living organisms navigate space in a fascinating variety of ways, most of which require exquisite control. We look at locomotor behavior across a wide range of scales, from the flight of individual insects to the collective motion of people.
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Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds
Our collaborators developed a powerful theoretical approach to describing and predicting crowd behavior that is easiest to understand when you picture a human crowd. For example, imagine you go to a stadium to see your favorite band. The show is about to start, so you look for the best spot to watch. You walk up to the stage and politely pass by the people at the edge of the crowd. Those people have forgone the best view in order to have a little more personal space. As you near the front though, it gets more and more crowded.
Walking like an ant: a quantitative and experimental approach to understanding locomotor mimicry in the jumping spider Myrmarachne formicaria.
Airborne Acoustic Perception by a Jumping Spider
Pitch perfect: how fruit flies control their body pitch angle
How fruit flies control their flight
Rock and Roll: How Fruit Flies Control Their Flight
Tsevi Beatus, John Guckenheimer and Itai Cohen,
The Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12, 20150075 (2015) PDF
Fruit fly wing torque can be modeled as a spring!
Wing-pitch modulation in maneuvering fruit flies is explained by an interplay between aerodynamics and a torsional spring
Automated hull reconstruction motion tracking (HRMT) applied to sideways maneuvers of free-flying insects
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