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Design and Testing of Autonomous Distributed Space Systems Open
Distributed Space Systems (DSS) are an emerging class of mission designs that enable new scientific and commercial opportunities. In order to enable those new opportunities, these systems will need to have significantly expanded autonomous…
Elastic shape morphing of ultralight structures by programmable assembly Open
Ultralight materials present an opportunity to dramatically increase the efficiency of load-bearing aerostructures. To date, however, these ultralight materials have generally been confined to the laboratory bench-top, due to dimensional c…
Sensor Arrays for Aerospace Vehicles Open
Advances in highly scalable sensors, wireless networks, distributed computing and data fusion algorithms enable significant improvements in high-level information-centric state determination for adaptable and autonomous aerospace vehicles.…
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1D Printing of Recyclable Robots Open
Recent advances in 3D printing are revolutionizing manufacturing, enabling the fabrication of structures with unprecedented complexity and functionality. Yet biological systems are able to fabricate systems with far greater complexity usin…
Development of Mission Adaptive Digital Composite Aerostructure Technologies (MADCAT) Open
This paper reviews the development of the Mission Adaptive Digital Composite Aerostructures Technologies (MADCAT) v0 demonstrator aircraft, utilizing a novel aerostructure concept that combines advanced composite materials manufacturing an…
A mobile robot for locomotion through a 3D periodic lattice environment Open
This paper describes a novel class of robots specifically adapted to climb periodic lattices, which we call 'Relative Robots'. These robots use the regularity of the structure to simplify the path planning, align with minimal feedback, and…
Robotically assembled aerospace structures: Digital material assembly using a gantry-type assembler Open
This paper evaluates the development of automated assembly techniques for discrete lattice structures using a multi-axis gantry type CNC machine. These lattices are made of discrete components called digital materials. We present the devel…
Digital cellular solid pressure vessels: A novel approach for human habitation in space Open
It is widely assumed that human exploration beyond Earth's orbit will require vehicles capable of providing long-duration habitats that simulate an Earthlike environment: consistent artificial gravity, breathable atmosphere, and sufficient…
Digital Cellular Solid Pressure Vessels: A Novel Approach for Human\n Habitation in Space Open
It is widely assumed that human exploration beyond Earth's orbit will require\nvehicles capable of providing long-duration habitats that simulate an Earthlike\nenvironment: consistent artificial gravity, breathable atmosphere, and\nsuffici…
Digital Morphing Wing: Active Wing Shaping Concept Using Composite Lattice-Based Cellular Structures Open
We describe an approach for the discrete and reversible assembly of tunable and actively deformable structures using modular building block parts for robotic applications. The primary technical challenge addressed by this work is the use o…
Evaluation of Cellular Solids Derived From Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces Open
Cellular solids are a class of materials that have many interesting engineering applications, including ultralight structural materials [1]. The traditional method for analyzing these solids uses convex uniform polyhedral honeycombs to rep…
Meso-Scale Digital Materials: Modular, Reconfigurable, Lattice-Based Structures Open
We present a modular, reconfigurable system for building large structures. This system uses discrete lattice elements, called digital materials, to reversibly assemble ultralight structures that are 99.7% air and yet maintain sufficient sp…