Desert RHex Technical Report: Tengger Desert Trip

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dc.bibliographic.citation<p>@TECHREPORT{Roberts-Duperret-2014-Tengger, author = {Roberts, Sonia and Duperret, Jeff and Li, Xinwan and Wang, Hesheng and Koditschek, D. E.}, title = {Desert {R}{H}ex Technical Report: {T}engger {D}esert Trip}, year = {2014}, institution = {University of Pennsylvania}, month = {November}, }</p>
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Sonia F
dc.contributor.authorDuperret, Jeffrey M
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Sonia F
dc.contributor.authorDuperret, Jeffrey M
dc.contributor.authorLi, Xinwan
dc.contributor.authorWang, Hesheng
dc.contributor.authorKoditschek, D. E.
dc.date2023-05-17T10:09:01.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T19:14:10Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T19:14:10Z
dc.date.issued2014-11-01
dc.date.submitted2014-11-13T14:49:31-08:00
dc.description.abstractDesertification is a long-standing issue in China, but research on the processes of desertification is limited by availability of personnel and technical equipment. This suggests a perfect application and further testing ground for the mobile desert sensing technology described in a previous technical report. We describe here the first of two trips to the Tengger Desert as part of a collaborative effort to bring Desert RHexes to China, with the goal of this trip being to discover and address potential locomotor challenges. Our robots were able to ascend 20-degree slopes with an 8.5kg payload, indicating that they could indeed be used for this novel mobile desert sensor application. We achieved locomotion on up to 30-degree slopes unreliably and on up to 27-degree slopes using morphological and behavioral adaptations inspired by our last desert trip.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/34153
dc.legacy.articleid1021
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dc.source.issue14
dc.source.journalTechnical Reports (ESE)
dc.source.journaltitleTechnical Reports (ESE)
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dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subject.otherKodlab
dc.subject.otherElectrical and Computer Engineering
dc.subject.otherEngineering
dc.subject.otherSystems Engineering
dc.titleDesert RHex Technical Report: Tengger Desert Trip
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digcom.contributor.authorLi, Xinwan
digcom.contributor.authorWang, Hesheng
digcom.contributor.authorKoditschek, D. E.
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