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  1. Explore Where It Matters: Targeted Exploration for Efficient Rover Adaptation

    Oct 28, 2026Jacob Levy, Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hassler +2Planetary Rover RoboticsAdaptive Learning

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  2. Do Earth-Trained Humanoid Controllers Walk on the Moon? Gravity, Terrain, and Soil Transfer

    Oct 21, 2026Guillem Casadesus Vila, Sri Aditya Deevi, Grace X. GaoHumanoid Robot LocomotionLegged Robotics

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

  3. Escape Without a Recipe: Maneuver-Agnostic Mars Rover Recovery from Granular Entrapment

    Oct 17, 2026Meraj Hossain Promit, Chandak Chakma, Md Jubair Ahmed Sourov +1Planetary Rover RoboticsRobot Failure Recovery

    Department of Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. · Department of AI & Robotics, New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan.

  4. Terrain-Dependent Intra-Cycle Leg Timing for Effective Locomotion on Granular Slopes

    Oct 2, 2026Long Zhao, Xingjue Liao, Feifei QianGranular Terrain LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  5. GM-Loco: Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Media

    Sep 9, 2026Junnosuke Kamohara, Feiyang Wu, Andy Ningan Zong +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionGranular Terrain Locomotion

    Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  6. Robust bipedal locomotion on flowable slopes via foot-driven terrain manipulation

    Jul 13, 2026Deniz Kerimoglu, Junnosuke Kamohara, Jiyeon Maeng +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionGranular Terrain Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  7. Simulating Robotic Locomotion in Sand: Resistive Force Theory in an Open-Source Physics Engine

    Jun 17, 2026Ryan Walker Brown, Laura K. Treers, Kathryn A. DaltorioGranular Terrain LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 · College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405

  8. Locomotion analysis of a quadruped interacting with the lunar granular surface

    Jun 9, 2026Yash J VyasGranular Terrain LocomotionRobotics Simulation

    Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua

  9. Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension

    Jun 5, 2026Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hasseler, Michael Paton +5Planetary Rover RoboticsOff-Road Robot Navigation

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA · Center for Autonomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA · Space Systems Laboratory, University of Maryland, MD 20742 USA

  10. Terrain-Adaptive Grouser Wheel for Optimal Planetary Exploration: Design and Experimental Investigation

    May 23, 2026Vincent Griffo, Yashwanth Kumar NakkaGranular Terrain LocomotionRobotics

    Aerospace Robotics Lab, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  11. Bipedal-Walking-Dynamics Model on Granular Terrains

    Apr 13, 2026Xunjie Chen, Xinyan Huang, Peter Shan +2Granular Terrain LocomotionBipedal Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA · Bridgewater Raritan High School, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 USA · State Key Lab of Fluid Power Transmission and Control and the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  12. From Impact to Insight: Dynamics-Aware Proprioceptive Terrain Sensing on Granular Media

    Apr 2, 2026Yifeng Zhang, Yue Wu, Jake Futterman +5Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionGranular Terrain Locomotion

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  13. Inverse Resistive Force Theory (I-RFT): Learning granular properties through robot-terrain physical interactions

    Mar 8, 2026Shipeng Liu, Feng Xue, Yifeng Zhang +2Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionGranular Terrain Locomotion

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  14. Failure Mechanisms and Risk Estimation for Legged Robot Locomotion on Granular Slopes

    Mar 6, 2026Xingjue Liao, Feifei QianGranular Terrain LocomotionRobot Locomotion

  15. Terrain characterization and locomotion adaptation in a small-scale lizard-inspired robot

    Mar 6, 2026Duncan Andrews, Landon Zimmerman, Evan Martin +2Bioinspired RoboticsRobotics

    Locomotion in Biology and Robotics (LiBR) Lab at Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802

  16. The effect of limb kinematics on the speed of a legged robot on granular media

    Mar 29, 2013Chen Li, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Haldun Komsuoglu +1Legged RoboticsGranular Terrain Locomotion

    School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA · Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  17. Sensitive dependence of the motion of a legged robot on granular media

    May 29, 2009Chen Li, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Haldun Komsuoglu +2Granular Terrain LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 · Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104