Paper:
Propulsion Mechanism for a Lunar Subterranean Excavator Using Peristaltic Crawling
Hiroyuki Kitamoto, Hayato Omori, Hiroaki Nagai,
Taro Nakamura, Hisashi Osumi, and Takashi Kubota
Department of Precision Mechanics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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