Abstracts with Presentations
RoboBall
Micah Oevermann, Meghali Dravid, Garrett Jibrail, Robert Ambrose, “Design and Dynamics of Rugged Soft Shells for a Pendulum-Driven Spherical Robot” at International Mechatronics Conference and Exposition. 2023.
Robert Ambrose, Micah Oevermann, Meghali Dravid, Garrett Jibrail, “Persistent intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for the Lunar Surface” at AIAA ASCEND Conference. 2023.
Meghali Dravid, Micah Oevermann, and Robert Ambrose, “A System for Exploring Craters and Shadowed Regions of the Lunar South Pole” at ASCE Space and Earth Conference. 2024.
Rishi Jangale, Micah Oevermann, Garrett Jibrail, Derek Pravecek, Meghali Dravid, Aaron Villanueva, and Robert O. Ambrose. “RoboBall Recap: Past, Current, and Future Inflatable Spherical Robots”. In: 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2024.
Robotic Space Simulator
Eddie Hilburn, Adam Pettinger, Emily Wilkinson, Robert Ambrose. “Robotic Space Simulator: A Full-Motion Simulator for In-Space Robotics”. In: 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2024.
Conference Papers Accepted
RoboBall
Micah Oevermann, Derek Pravecek, Garrett Jibrail, Rishi Jangale, and Robert Ambrose. “RoboBall: An All-Terrain Spherical Robot with a Pressurized Shell”. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2024.
Micah Oevermann, Meghali Prashant Dravid, Garrett Jibrail, Jared Janak, Rishi Jangale, David McDougall, David Dugas, and Robert O Ambrose. “A Soft Spherical Robot for Lunar Crater Exploration”. In: AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum. 2024, p. 1961.
Meghali Dravid, Micah Oevermann, David McDougall, David Dugas, and Robert O. Ambrose. “Design of a Soft Shell for a Spherical Exploration Robot Traversing Varying Terrain”. In: International Conference on Robotics and Automation Systems (IROS). 2024.
Rishi Jangale, Aaron Villanueva, Garrett Jibrail, Micah Oevermann, Derek Pravecek, Meghali Dravid, and Robert Ambrose. “Scaling of RoboBall: A Parametric Robot Family for Crater Exploration.” In: IEEE Aerospace Conference. 2025.
David McDougall, Derek Pravecek, and Robert Ambrose, “A Platform for Autonomous Lunar Rover Rescue.” In: IEEE Aerospace Conference. 2025.
Robotic Space Simulator
Eddie Hilburn, Adam Pettinger, Emily Wilkinson, and Robert Ambrose. “Design and Characterization of a Testbed Simulator for In-Space Robotics”. In: 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference. 2025.
Eddie Hilburn, Adam Pettinger, Emily Wilkinson, Ian Lansdowne, and Robert Ambrose. “Robotic Space Simulator: Controls Implementation for Auxiliary Axes and Zero-G Dynamics”. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2025.
Conference Papers In Review
Robotic Space Simulator
Haru Tidmore, Eddie Hilburn, David van Wijk, Manoranjan Majji. “Validation of In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing Mission using Simscape Multibody”. In: 2025 International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots. 2025.
Journal Papers Published
RoboBall
D. J. Pravecek, M. J. Oevermann, G. C. Thomas and R. O. Ambrose, “Empirically Compensated Setpoint Tracking for Spherical Robots With Pressurized Soft-Shells,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2136-2143, March 2025