Earth-worm typed drilling robot for subsurface planetary exploration

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1394-1399

  Kubota, Takashi ^a   Nagaoka, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Satoru ^a   Nakamura, Taro ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drilling robot; Mole type robot; Subsurface exploration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMIMETICS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LUNAR MISSIONS; ROBOTICS; SOILS;

DRILLING ROBOT; FINE SAND; HIGH-DENSITY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOLE TYPE ROBOT; PLANETARY SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION; SOIL SAMPLING; SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION; SUBSURFACE PLANETARY EXPLORATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 49249084005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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