Publications

• Rieser, J.M.*, Li, T.-D.*, Tingle, J.L., Goldman, D.I., and Mendelson III, J.R. “Functional consequences of convergently evolved microscopic skin features on snake locomotion”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 118, 6, e201826411 (2021).

• Chong, B., Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Gong, C. , Sartoretti, G. , Wu, Y., Rieser, J.M., Xing, H., Rankin, J.W., Michel, K., Nicieza, A., Hutchinson, J.R., Goldman, D.I., and Choset, H., “Coordination of Lateral Body Bending and Leg Movements for Sprawled Posture Quadrupedal Locomotion”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, 0278364921991158 (2021).

• Astley, H.C., Rieser, J.M., Kaba, A., Paez, V.M., Tomkinson, I., Mendelson III, J.R., Goldman, D.I., “Side-Impact Collision: Mechanics of Obstacle Negotiation in Sidewinding Snakes”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 15, 065005 (2020).

• Schiebel, P.E., Astley, H.C., Rieser, J.M., Agarwal, S., Hubicki, C.M., Agarwal, S., Hubbard, A.M., Diaz-Cruz, K., Mendelson III, J.R., Kamrin, K.N., and Goldman, D.I., “Mitigating memory effects during undulatory locomotion on hysteretic materials”, eLife, 9, e51412 (2020).

• Astley, H.C., Mendelson III, J.R., Dai, J., Gong, C., Chong, B., Rieser, J.M., Schiebel, P.E., Sharpe, S.S., Hatton, R.L., Choset, C., Goldman, D.I., “Surprising simplicities and syntheses in limbless self-propulsion in sand”, Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, 5 (2020).

• Rieser, J.M., Gong, C., Astley, H.C., Schiebel, P.E., Hatton, R.L., Choset, H., and Goldman, D.I. “Geometric phase and dimensionality reduction in locomoting living systems”, arXiv preprint, arXiv:1906.11374 (2019).

• Schiebel, P.E., Rieser, J.M., Hubbard, A.M., Chen, L., Rocklin, D.Z., and Goldman, D.I., “Mechanical diffraction reveals the role of passive dynamics in a slithering snake”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 201808675 (2019).

• Rieser, J.M., Schiebel, P.E., Pazouki, A., Qian F., Goddard Z., Wiesenfeld, K., Zangwill, A., Negrut, D., Goldman, D.I., “Dynamics of scattering in undulatory active collisions”, Phys Rev E, 99, 022606 (2019).

• Cubuk, E.D*., Ivancic, R.J.S.*,Schoenholz, S.S.*, Strickland, D.J.*, Basu, A, Davidson Z.S., Fontaine, J., Hor, J.L., Huang Y.-R., Jiang, Y, Keim, N.C., Koshigan, K.D., Lefever, J.A., Liu, T, Ma X.-G., Magagnosc, D.J., Morrow E., Ortiz, C.P., Rieser, J.M., Shavit, A., Still, T., Xu, Y., Zhang, Y., Nordstrom, K.N., Arratia, P.E., Carpick, R.W., Durian, D.J., Fakhraai, Z., Jerolmack, D.J., Lee, D., Li, J., Riggleman R., Turner, K.T., Yodh, A.G., Gianola, D.S., Liu, A.J., “Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids”, Science, 358, 1033 (2017).

• McInroe, B.*, Astley, H.C.*, Gong, C., and Kawano, S.M., Schiebel, P.E., Rieser, J.M., Choset, H., Blob, R.W., Goldman, D.I., “Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors”, Science, 353, 154 (2016).

• Rieser, J.M., Goodrich, C.P., Liu, A.J., Durian, D.J., “Divergence of Voronoi Cell Anisotropy Vector: A Threshold-Free Characterization of Local Structure in Amorphous Materials”, Phys Rev Lett, 118, 088001 (2016).

• Li, W., Rieser, J.M., Liu, A.J., Durian, D.J., Li, J., “Deformation-Driven Diffusion and Plastic Flow in Two-Dimensional Amorphous Granular Pillars”, Phys Rev E, 91, 062212 (2015).

• Cubuk, E.D.*, Schoenholz, S.S.*, Rieser, J.M., Malone, B.D., Rottler, J., Durian, D.J., Kaxiras, E., Liu, A.J., “Identifying structural flow defects in disordered solids using machine-learning methods”, Phys Rev Lett, 114, 108001 (2015).

• Rieser, J.M., Arratia, P.E., Yodh, A.G., Gollub, J.P., Durian, D.J., “Tunable capillary-induced attraction between vertical cylinders”, Langmuir 31, 2421 (2015).

• Basu, A., Xu, Y., Still, T., Arratia, P.E., Zhang, Z., Nordstrom, K.N., Rieser, J.M., Gollub, J.P. Durian, D.J., and Yodh, A.G., “Rheology of soft colloids across the onset of rigidity: scaling behavior, thermal, and non-thermal responses”, Soft Matter, 10, 3027 (2014).

• Schiebel, P.E., Maisonneuve, M.C., Diaz, K, Rieser, J.M., and Goldman, D.I.,  “Robophysical Modeling of Bilaterally Activated and Soft Limbless Locomotors” in Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 300-311 (2020).

• Zhong, B.*, Wang, T.*, Rieser, J.M., Kaba, A., Choset, H., and Goldman, D.I.,  “Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of limbless robots”, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) (2020).

• Zhong, B., Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Sartoretti, G., Rieser, J.M., Gong, C., Xing, H., Choset, H., and Goldman, D.I., “A Hierarchical Geometric Framework to Design Locomotive Gaits for Highly Articulated Robots”, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) (2019).

• Aydin, Y.O., Rieser, J.M., Hubicki, C.M., Savoie, W., and Goldman, D.I., “Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experiment”, in Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms (pp. 109-127), Woodhead Publishing (2019)

• Zhong, B., Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Gong, C., Sartoretti, G., Wu, Y.,  Rieser, J.M., Xing, H., Rankin, J.W., Michel, K., Nicieza, A., Hutchinson, J., Goldman, D.I., and Choset, H., “Coordination of back bending and leg movements for quadrupedal locomotion”, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) (2018).

• Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Chong, B., Gong, C., Rieser, J.M., Rankin, J.W., Michel, K., Nicieza, A.G., Hutchinson, J., Choset, H., and Goldman, D.I., “Geometric Mechanics Applied to Tetrapod Locomotion on Granular Media” in Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 595-603 (2017).

• Schiebel, P.E., Rieser, J.M., Hubbard, A.M.,Chen L., and Goldman, D.I., “Collisional Diffraction Emerges from Simple Control of Limbless Locomotion” in Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 611-618 (2017).