Robotic Explorer for Hypothesized Surfaces – The Comet Crawler
INSTITUTION
Cleveland State University (CSU)
CLASS
Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)
STUDENT TEAM
Bree A Valley, Mechanical Engineering
Joshua D Dragony, Mechanical Engineering
Irene Salamakha, Mechanical Engineering
ACADEMIC GUIDANCE
Bogdan Kozul
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Building a robotic crawler that would be able to traverse the surface of Psyche while maintaining connection to the surface using electromagnetism.

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This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Cleveland State University Capstone Course “MCE 450”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.