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Co-Evolution of Multi-Robot Controllers and Task Cues for Off-World Open Pit Mining
Jekan Thangavelautham, Yinan Xu
Robots are ideal for open-pit mining on the Moon as its a dull, dirty, and dangerous task. The challenge is to scale up productivity with an ever-increasing number of robots. This…
Autonomous Robot Swarms for Off-World Construction and Resource Mining
Jekan Thangavelautham
Kick-starting the space economy requires identification of critical resources that can lower the cost of space transport, sustain logistic bases and communication relay networks be…
Autonomous Multirobot Technologies for Mars Mining Base Construction and Operation
Jekan Thangavelautham, Aman Chandra, Erik Jensen
Beyond space exploration, the next critical step towards living and working in space requires developing a space economy. One important challenge with this space-economy is ensurin…
Automated Multidisciplinary Design and Control of Hopping Robots for Exploration of Extreme Environments on the Moon and Mars
Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham
The next frontier in solar system exploration will be missions targeting extreme and rugged environments such as caves, canyons, cliffs and crater rims of the Moon, Mars and icy mo…
A Spring Propelled Extreme Environment Robot for Off-World Cave Exploration
Steven Morad, Thomas Dailey, Leonard Vance +1
Pits on the Moon and Mars are intriguing geological formations that have yet to be explored. These geological formations can provide protection from harsh diurnal temperature varia…
Motion Planning on an Asteroid Surface with Irregular Gravity Fields
Himangshu Kalita, Jekan Thangavelautham
There are thousands of asteroids in near-Earth space and millions in the Main Belt. They are diverse in physical properties and composition and are time capsules of the early solar…