Mini Rover Operating in Beach Sand (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mini Rover Operating in Beach Sand

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Built with multifunctional appendages able to spin wheels that can also be "wiggled" and lifted, the Mini Rover was modeled on a novel NASA rover design and used in the laboratory to develop and test complex locomotion techniques robust enough to help it climb hills composed of granular material, here ordinary beach sand.

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Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech

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