This special issue consists of reviewed articles contributed by lecture presenters of the IUTAM Symposium ``From Mechanical to Biological Systems: an Integrated Approach'' held at the Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia, from June 5 to June 10, 2012. The main goal of the Symposium was to promote an integrated approach to the understanding of the dynamical structures of mechanical artefacts, on the one hand, and living bodies, on the other hand. Areas of emphasis included the dynamics of
Preface
An Amphibious
Felix Becker, Klaus Zimmermann, Tatiana Volkova, and Vladimir T. Minchenya
How to Control Chaplygin’s Sphere Using Rotors
Alexey
How to Control the Chaplygin Ball Using Rotors. II
Alexey
The Dynamics of Vortex Rings: Leapfrogging, Choreographies and the Stability Problem
Alexey
Optimal Control of Vibrationally Excited Locomotion Systems
Felix L. Chernousko, Nikolai N. Bolotnik and Tatiana Yu. Figurina
On the Optimal Shape of Magnetic Swimmers
Hermes Gadˆelha
Hongbin Fang, Jian Xu
On the Dynamics of a Rigid Body with Moving Masses and a Rotor on a Rough Plane
Stability of Underwater Periodic Locomotion
Fangxu Jing and Eva Kanso
A deviation based discrete control algorithm for a mobile omnidirectional robot
Yuri L. Karavaev, Sergey A.Trefilov
Dynamics and
Phanindra Tallapragada and Scott David Kelly
On the Dynamic
Alex Lґucio Castro and Jair Koiller
Quaternion Solution for the Rock’n’roller: Box Orbits, Loop Orbits and Recession
Peter Lynch and Miguel D. Bustamante
On the motion of connected pendulums
Normal and Hemiparetic Walking
Friedrich Pfeiffer and Eberhard KЁonig
Falling Motion of a Circular Cylinder Interacting Dynamically with a Point Vortex
Sergei
Vortex Pairs and Dipoles
Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith and Raymond J. Nagem
On the Dynamic Model and Motion Planning for a Spherical Rolling Robot Actuated by Orthogonal Internal Rotors
Mikhail Svinin, Akihiro Morinaga, and Motoji Yamamoto
The
Evgeny
The Mathematical Model of the