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Inflatable Rover Technologies
This project is no longer active.

Head: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos
Contact: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos (da1v@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: FRC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

Project Description

Inflatable rovers may provide low-mass, highly capable platforms for exploration of extreme terrain on moons and planets as well as remote locations on Earth. Conceptualization and design of novel mechanisms and the unique software required to develop and control them is the focus of this research.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Dimitrios Apostolopoulos	Senior Systems Scientist	da1v@cs.cmu.edu
	Michael D Wagner	NREC Commercialization Specialist	mwagner@cmu.edu
	David Wettergreen	Assoc. Research Professor	dsw@ri.cmu.edu

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.

• Experimental Characterization of a Robotic Inflatable Wheel
  D. Apostolopoulos, M.D. Wagner, C. Leger, and J. Jones
  8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, September, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [941 KB] copyrighted

• Results of the Inflatable Robotic Rover Testbed
  D. Apostolopoulos, M.D. Wagner, S. Heys, and J. Teza
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [5769 KB] copyrighted