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Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration.

Soft robotics
Tens of thousands of planetary small bodies (asteroids, comets, and small moons) are flying beside our Earth with little understanding. Explorers on the surfaces of these bodies, unlike the Lunar or Mars rovers, have only few attempts and no sophisti...

Modular Robotic Limbs for Astronaut Activities Assistance.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In order to meet the assist requirements of extravehicular activity (EVA) for astronauts, such as moving outside the international space station (ISS) or performing on-orbit tasks by a single astronaut, this paper proposes an astronaut robotic limbs ...

A Torque-actuated dissipative spring loaded inverted pendulum model with rolling contact and Its application to hexapod running.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
We report on the development and analysis of a new torque-actuated dissipative spring loaded inverted pendulum model with rolling contact (TDR-SLIP), which is a successor to the previously developed spring loaded inverted pendulum model with rolling ...

Hand Exo-Muscular System for Assisting Astronauts During Extravehicular Activities.

Soft robotics
Human exploration of the Solar System is one of the most challenging objectives included in the space programs of the most important space agencies in the world. Since the Apollo program, and especially with the construction and operation of the Inte...

Achieving bioinspired flapping wing hovering flight solutions on Mars via wing scaling.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Achieving atmospheric flight on Mars is challenging due to the low density of the Martian atmosphere. Aerodynamic forces are proportional to the atmospheric density, which limits the use of conventional aircraft designs on Mars. Here, we show using n...

Time Sharing Between Robotics and Process Control: Validating a Model of Attention Switching.

Human factors
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to validate the strategic task overload management (STOM) model that predicts task switching when concurrence is impossible.

A Computationally Inexpensive Optimal Guidance via Radial-Basis-Function Neural Network for Autonomous Soft Landing on Asteroids.

PloS one
Optimal guidance is essential for the soft landing task. However, due to its high computational complexities, it is hardly applied to the autonomous guidance. In this paper, a computationally inexpensive optimal guidance algorithm based on the radial...

Characterizing Individual Differences in a Dynamic Stabilization Task Using Machine Learning.

Aerospace medicine and human performance
: Being able to identify individual differences in skilled motor learning during disorienting conditions is important for spaceflight, military aviation, and rehabilitation.: Blindfolded subjects ( = 34) were strapped into a device that behaved like ...