TY - GEN
T1 - Earth-worm typed drilling robot for subsurface planetary exploration
AU - Kubota, Takashi
AU - Nagaoka, Kenji
AU - Tanaka, Satoru
AU - Nakamura, Taro
PY - 2007/1/1
Y1 - 2007/1/1
N2 - This paper presents a mobile robotic system designed to perform deep soil sampling for lunar or planetary subsurface exploration in the near future. Drilling robots have to carry the excavated fine sand, regolith backward because of the high density. Therefore a new scheme is proposed, to move forward under the soil by making use of reactive force caused by pushing the discharged regolith. The first simple experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
AB - This paper presents a mobile robotic system designed to perform deep soil sampling for lunar or planetary subsurface exploration in the near future. Drilling robots have to carry the excavated fine sand, regolith backward because of the high density. Therefore a new scheme is proposed, to move forward under the soil by making use of reactive force caused by pushing the discharged regolith. The first simple experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
KW - Drilling robot
KW - Mole type robot
KW - Subsurface exploration
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522368
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522368
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:49249084005
SN - 9781424417582
T3 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO
SP - 1394
EP - 1399
BT - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO
Y2 - 15 December 2007 through 18 December 2007
ER -