Spencer Backus

2 accepted papers

2024

LORIS: A Lightweight Free-Climbing Robot for Extreme Terrain Exploration

Paul Nadan, Spencer Backus, Aaron M. Johnson

ICRA 2024poster

Climbing robots can investigate scientifically valuable sites that conventional rovers cannot access due to steep terrain features. Robots equipped with microspine grippers are particularly well-suited to ascending rocky cliff faces, but most existing designs are either large and slow or limited to…

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2022

Microspine Design for Additive Manufacturing

Paul Nadan, Dinesh K. Patel, Catherine Pavlov, Spencer Backus, Aaron M. Johnson

IROS 2022poster

Microspine grippers allow robots to ascend steep rocky slopes and cliff faces, enabling scientific exploration of exposed strata on Earth and other solar system bodies. Historically, the Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) process has been used to fabricate multi-material suspensions for load-shari…

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