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Kyle Johnson

2 accepted papers

2025

Resettable Land Anchor Launcher for Unmanned Rover Rescue and Slope Climbing

ICRA 2025

Unmanned planetary rovers have traversed kilometers of Lunar and Martian terrain while performing valuable science. However, they still face mobility challenges including steep slopes and unstable soil that can entrap vehicles, as demonstrated by NASA's Spirit rover. Vehicles on Earth can depend on

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Toward Sub-Gram Helicopters: Designing a Miniaturized Flybar for Passive Stability

IROS 2023poster

Sub-gram flying robots have transformative potential in applications from search and rescue to precision agriculture to environmental monitoring. However, a key gap in achieving autonomous flight for these applications is the low lift to weight ratio of flapping wing and quadrotor designs around 1 g…

Cited by 4SourceScholar