An Earth Auger as Excavator for Planetary Underground Explorer Robot Using Peristaltic Crawling
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چکیده
Exploration of planets has significant chances of discoveries e.g. discovery of new substances, as well as finding keys to the origin of our planet. However, some terrains are poorly explored, especially the underground ones. Thus, we have developed underground explorers that use peristaltic crawling of an earthworm for a propulsion part and an earth auger (EA) for an excavation. In this paper, we introduce our concept of an underground explorer. Next, we explain the two different diameter EAs that can be used for the propulsion part. Then we perform excavation experiments, pushing force experiments and rotation speed experiments. We confirmed that both EAs could excavate and the Auger 45 showed good excavation performance.
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