Coring

Drilling Systems for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration

K. Zacny, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, Matthew C. Brennan, G. A. Briggs, Graham Cooper, Kiel Davis, Benjamin P. Dolgin, David Glaser, B. Glass, S. Gorevan, Jose C. Guerrero, Christopher P. McKay, G. Paulsen, Scott Stanley, C. Stoker

Citations: 194 • 2008

The Sampling and Caching Subsystem (SCS) for the Scientific Exploration of Jezero Crater by the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

R. Moeller, Louise Jandura, Keith Rosette, Matt Robinson, Jessica Samuels, Milo Silverman, Kyle Brown, Elizabeth R. Duffy, Aaron Yazzie, Elizabeth T. Jens, Iona Brockie, Lauren M. White, Y. S. Goreva, Torsten Zorn, Avi Okon, Justin Lin, Matthew Frost, Curtis Collins, Jeffrey B. Williams, Adam Steltzner, Fei Chen, Jeff Biesiadecki

Citations: 134 • 2020

Drilling cores on the sea floor with the remote-controlled sea floor drilling rig MeBo

Tim Freudenthal, Gerold Wefer

Citations: 69 • 2013

The 2005 MARTE Robotic Drilling Experiment in Río Tinto, Spain: Objectives, Approach, and Results of a Simulated Mission to Search for Life in the Martian Subsurface

C. Stoker, Howard Cannon, Stephen E. Dunagan, Lawrence G. Lemke, B. Glass, D.O. Miller, Javier Gómez‐Elvira, Kiel Davis, J. Zavaleta, Alois Winterholler, Matt Roman, J. A. Rodríguez‐Manfredi, R. Bonaccorsi, Mary Sue Bell, A. J. Brown, M. Battler, Bin Chen, G. A. Cooper, Mark M. Davidson, David C. Fernández‐Remolar, Eduardo Gonzales-Pastor, J. L. Heldmann, Jesús Martínez‐Frías, Vı́ctor Parro, O. Prieto‐Ballesteros, B. Sutter, Andrew C. Schuerger, John Schutt, F. Rull

Citations: 61 • 2008

MARTE: Technology development and lessons learned from a Mars drilling mission simulation

Howard Cannon, C. Stoker, Stephen E. Dunagan, Kiel Davis, Javier Gómez‐Elvira, B. Glass, Lawrence G. Lemke, D.O. Miller, R. Bonaccorsi, Mark Lau Branson, Scott Christa, J. A. Rodríguez‐Manfredi, E. Mumm, G. Paulsen, Matt Roman, Alois Winterholler, J. Zavaleta

Citations: 39 • 2007

Gravity-independent mobility and drilling on natural rock using microspines

Aaron Parness, Matthew Frost, Nitish Thatte, Jonathan P. King

Citations: 36 • 2012

Robotic drilling tests in simulated lunar regolith environment

Tao Zhang, Yinliang Zhang, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding, Hongyu Wei, Chaoyue Chao, Bin Wang, Bing Wang

Citations: 32 • 2021

Prototype rotary percussive drill for the Mars Sample Return mission

K. Zacny, Jack Wilson, Phil Chu, J. Craft

Citations: 25 • 2011

Auto-Gopher: a wire-line rotary-hammer ultrasonic drill

Mircea Bădescu, Stewart Sherrit, Xiaoqi Bao, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, Beck Chen

Citations: 23 • 2011

Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission

Tao Zhang, Yong Pang, Ting Zeng, Guoxin Wang, Shen Yin, Kun Xu, Guidong Mo, Xingwang Zhang, Lusi Wang, Shuai Yang, Zeng Zhao, Junjie Qin, Junshan Gong, Zhongxian Zhao, Xuefeng Tong, Zhongwang Yin, Haiyuan Wang, Fan Zhao, Yanhong Zheng, Xiangjin Deng, Bin Wang, Jinchang Xu, Wei Wang, Shuangfei Yu, Xiaoming Lai, Xilun Ding

Citations: 20 • 2023

Core-bored search-and-rescue applications for an agile limbed robot

Richard M. Voyles, A.C. Larson, Jaewook Bae, Monica Lapoint

Citations: 20 • 2005

The ultrasonic/sonic driller/corer (USDC) as a subsurface drill, sampler, and lab-on-a-drill for planetary exploration applications

Y. Bar-Cohen, Z. Chang, Stewart Sherrit, Mircea Bădescu, X. Bao

Citations: 20 • 2005

Demonstrations of gravity-independent mobility and drilling on natural rock using microspines

Aaron Parness, Matthew Frost, Jonathan P. King, Nitish Thatte

Citations: 15 • 2012

Adapting the ultrasonic/sonic driller/corer for walking/climbing robotic applications

Mircea Bădescu, Xiaoqi Bao, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, Zensheu Chang, Borna E. Dabiri, B. M. Kennedy, Stewart Sherrit

Citations: 14 • 2005

Influence of lunar regolith compressibility on sampling performance of thick wall spiral drills

Yong Pang, Tao Zhang, Hongyu Wei, Ting Zeng, Yinliang Zhang, Guidong Mo, Kun Xu, Shen Yin, Guoxin Wang, Xingwang Zhang, Xiaoming Lai, Xilun Ding

Citations: 13 • 2021

Estimation and control for autonomous coring from a rover manipulator

Nicolas Hudson, Paul Backes, M. DiCicco, Max Bajracharya

Citations: 13 • 2010

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Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, Stewart Sherrit, Benjamin P. Dolgin, Dharmendra S. Pal, T. Peterson, J. Kroh, Ron Krahe

Citations: 12 • 2000

Shallow drilling in the deep sea: The sea floor drill rig MeBo

Tim Freudenthal, Gerold Wefer

Citations: 11 • 2009

Development of a rotary-percussive drilling mechanism (RPDM)

Qiquan Quan, Peng Li, Shengyuan Jiang, Xuyan Hou, Dewei Tang, Zongquan Deng, Weiwei Zhang

Citations: 10 • 2012

A minimum scale architecture for rover-based sample acquisition and caching

Paul Backes, Paulo Younse, Anthony Ganino

Citations: 10 • 2013