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Froude scaling for rovers on small body surfaces 

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We study rover-regolith interactions in low-gravity environments by conducting soft-sphere discrete element method (SSDEM) simulations with a simplified rover wheel and a bed of spherical particles. The simulations reveal that rover performance scales according to the Froude number, or a dimensionless parameter which accounts for the size of the wheel, the rotational velocity of the wheel, and gravity. This relationship provides valuable insight into how to operate rovers and analyze wheel-regolith interactions during future rover missions.
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Cecily Sunday, Naomi Murdoch, Simon Tardivel, Patrick Michel. Froude scaling for rovers on small body surfaces . Europlanet Science Congress 2022, Sep 2022, Grenade, Spain. ⟨10.5194/epsc2022-525⟩. ⟨hal-03835761⟩
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