Tensegrity Internal Actuation

The goal is to design an actuated internal payload to provide locomotion to the NASA SuperBall tensegrity robot.

Background
NASA's SuperBall Tensegrity robot is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project with the goal of developing an exploratory tensegrity robot. In previous years student's have developed the tensegrity structure of the robot. Through rigorous analysis and testing the structure has been validated for a space drop on to Saturn's moon Titan. Currently their are two projects underway. Here at the University of Idaho the locomotion of the robot through internal actuation is being developed. In other labs the actuation of the external frame is being explored.