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Paul Bartlett Masters Student No longer a member of RI. Email address: paulbartlett@cmu.edu

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Research interests

I pursue mobility, manipulation and sensing design challenges in robotic planetary exploration. I'm a generalist but my background is primarily in spacecraft mechanisms, systems engineering and planetary science. I'm currently on the design team developing an R&D vehicle for NASA to field test a lunar rover concept. The motivation is to explore a permanently shadowed crater on the lunar south pole that may hold large amounts of water ice.

Research interest keywords

design, field robotics, manipulation, mechanisms, mobile robots, and space robotics

Additional Interests and Responsibilities

I'm also interested in kinetic and responsive art and architecture.

Past Projects

Lunar Ice Discovery Initiative - Icebreaker is a proposed mission to explore the south pole of the Moon.

Lunar Rover for Polar Crater Exploration - The Scarab lunar rover has been designed to carry a 1-meter coring drill and a payload of science instruments that can analyze the abundance of hydrogen, oxygen and other materials.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Design of the Scarab Rover for Mobility and Drilling in the Lunar Cold Traps
  P. Bartlett, D. Wettergreen, and W.L. Whittaker
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, February, 2008. [Abstract]