22 papers
Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning
Ashutosh Mishra, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra +4
Modular reconfigurable robotic systems provide a scalable solution for cooperative surface operations in future lunar missions. However, cooperative cargo transportation remains ch…
A Pin-Array Structured Climbing Robot for Stable Locomotion on Steep Rocky Terrain
Keita Nagaoka, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
Climbing robots face significant challenges when navigating unstructured environments, where reliable attachment to irregular surfaces is critical. We present a novel mobile climbi…
LIMBERO: A Limbed Climbing Exploration Robot Toward Traveling on Rocky Cliffs
Kentaro Uno, Masazumi Imai, Kazuki Takada +7
In lunar and planetary exploration, legged robots have attracted significant attention as an alternative to conventional wheeled robots, which struggle to traverse rough and uneven…
A Pin-Array Structure for Gripping and Shape Recognition of Convex and Concave Terrain Profiles
Takuya Kato, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
This paper presents a gripper capable of grasping and recognizing terrain shapes for mobile robots in extreme environments. Multi-limbed climbing robots with grippers are effective…
Assembling Solar Panels by Dual Robot Arms Towards Full Autonomous Lunar Base Construction
Luca Nunziante, Kentaro Uno, Gustavo H. Diaz +3
Since the successful Apollo program, humanity is once again aiming to return to the Moon for scientific discovery, resource mining, and inhabitation. Upcoming decades focus on buil…
Discrete Fourier Transform-based Point Cloud Compression for Efficient SLAM in Featureless Terrain
Riku Suzuki, Ayumi Umemura, Shreya Santra +2
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an essential technology for the efficiency and reliability of unmanned robotic exploration missions. While the onboard computational…