A Novel Approach to Planetary Regolith Collection: The Bucket Drum Soil Excavator
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Bucket Drum Excavator (BDE) was designed as a robust yet lightweight device that can effectively collect, contain, and deliver planetary soils. When mounted to a mobility platform, the BDE can collect soil at an excavation site and then deliver the soil to processing equipment. Additional capabilities include road building, ramp and berm construction, trenching, area leveling, or any number of dig and fill operations. Multiple small scoops on the exterior of the drum collect soil as the drum rotates. The collected soil is contained within the drum through the use of internal baffles. Reversing the direction of drum rotation expels the soil back out through the scoops.
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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