About the Authors

Manoj Srinivasan

srinivasan.88@osu.edu

Affiliation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Yang Wang

Affiliation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Alison Sheets

Affiliation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

Richard Geary (Honda Inc.) helped with an early version of the tabletop demonstration. This acknowledged help does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as well as authorship, as detailed online in PLOS ONE's guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AS. Performed the experiments: MS AS. Analyzed the data: MS AS YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS YW AS. Wrote the paper: MS AS YW. Wrote the MATLAB simulations and performed mathematical analysis: MS YW.