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Regolith Flow Mitigation and Control in Reduced Gravity via Vertically Vibrating Pocket Feeder
By: Ryan Garvey, Anastasia Stepanova, and Anthony Puga
This paper discloses a method and system for achieving continuous and controllable flow of granular lunar regolith simulant under reduced gravity conditions, including 1/6th-g, by means of vertical vibration and mechanically rotated pocket feeder systems integrated beneath variable draw-angle hoppers.