MECHANICAL DESIGN OF A HOPPER ROBOT FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian Space Agency is investigating technologies for lowering the cost of planetary exploration missions through miniaturization of landed platforms. Such a change of paradigm could enable a revolution similar to that which has shaken the satellite business with the advent of small satellites and micro satellites. Such spacecrafts now provide space mission opportunities with price tags several orders of magnitude below classical satellites. One of the consequences of miniaturization is that traditional locomotion schemes such as wheels are not appropriate any more. To a small rover, even the very small obstacles become insurmountable. Alternate locomotion schemes must then be investigated to overcome this problem and enable miniaturized missions. Another consequence of miniaturization is that electric energy obtained through solar panels becomes very scarce. In light of these constraints, a hopping robot for Mars exploration is being designed and prototyped. This robot uses diurnal variations of temperature at Mars’ surface as a source of power. The hopping mechanism is based on a novel cylindrical scissor mechanism. This paper presents the results of trade study on miniaturization of Mars landers, introduces the main requirements to be met by such a system and describes the concept of operation of the hopping robot. The design of the main components of the hopping mechanism is described in detail.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it