Fluidization

Razor clam to RoboClam: burrowing drag reduction mechanisms and their robotic adaptation

Amos G. Winter, V, Robin Deits, Daniel S. Dorsch, Alexander H. Slocum, A. E. Hosoi

Citations: 111 • 2014

Soft Robotic Burrowing Device with Tip-Extension and Granular Fluidization

Nicholas D. Naclerio, Christian Hubicki, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, Daniel I. Goldman, Elliot W. Hawkes

Citations: 54 • 2018

Ground fluidization promotes rapid running of a lightweight robot

Tingnan Zhang, Feifei Qian, Chen Li, Pierangelo Masarati, Aaron M. Hoover, Paul Birkmeyer, Andrew Pullin, Ronald S. Fearing, Daniel I. Goldman

Citations: 34 • 2013

Low-resistive vibratory penetration in granular media

Baptiste Darbois Texier, Alejandro Ibarra, Francisco Melo

Citations: 21 • 2017

Critical Timescales for Burrowing in Undersea Substrates via Localized Fluidization, Demonstrated by RoboClam: A Robot Inspired by Atlantic Razor Clams

Amos G. Winter, Robin Deits, Daniel S. Dorsch

Citations: 17 • 2013

Bubble and particle dynamics in a thin rectangular bubbling fluidized bed under emulated marine instabilities

Ali Akbar Sarbanha, Faı̈çal Larachi, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi

Citations: 10 • 2023

Design of a Low Energy, Self Contained Subsea Burrowing Robot Based on Localized Fluidization Exhibited by Atlantic Razor Clams

Daniel S. Dorsch, Amos G. Winter

Citations: 7 • 2014

Strategizing internals’ geometry to improve resilience of marinized bubbling fluidized beds to roll-induced maldistribution

Ali Akbar Sarbanha, Faı̈çal Larachi, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi

Citations: 6 • 2024

A Novel and High-efficiency Razor Clam Inspired Burrowing Robot that Utilizes Localized Fluidization Mechanism

Bingxin Zhao, Linsen Xu, Lei Liu, Jie Long, Jinfu Liu

Citations: 6 • 2021

Active Vibration Fluidization for Granular Jamming Grippers

Cameron Coombe, James Brett, Raghav Mishra, Gary W. Delaney, David Howard

Citations: 4 • 2023

Design of a Biologically Inspired Underwater Burrowing Robot That Utilizes Localized Fluidization

Daniel S. Dorsch, Amos G. Winter

Citations: 4 • 2015

Ascent dynamics of self-propulsion intruder and the effects on granular rheology

Jian Bai, Chenghuan Yin, Shibo Wang, Guangyang Hong, Aibing Yu, Jian Li

Citations: 3 • 2025

Multi-Substrate Burrowing Performance and Constitutive Modeling of RoboClam: A Biomimetic Robot Based on Razor Clams

Amos G. Winter, Robin Deits, Daniel S. Dorsch, A. E. Hosoi, Alexander H. Slocum

Citations: 3 • 2010

Precision mist injection strategy for enhanced hydrodynamic stability in oscillating bubbling fluidized beds

S. Vogel, Ali Akbar Sarbanha, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi, Markus Schubert, Faı̈çal Larachi

Citations: 2 • 2025

Burrowing and unburrowing in submerged granular media through fluidization and shape-change

Aniruddha Nayak, Hoseung Seo, Nick Gravish, Michael T. Tolley

Citations: 1 • 2025