Planetary surface vehicles (PSVs) play a critical role in space explorations. Flexible-wheel (FW) suspension concept has been regarded to be one of the novel technologies for future PSVs, where a few experimental studies have demonstrated its potential benefits in improving tractive performance of PSVs. This study develops generalized models for fundamental stiffness and damping properties and ...

Self-suspension intervals are becoming increasingly common in various systems such as: (i) multi-core processors, where tasks running on one core have to synchronize with tasks running on other cores, (ii) heterogeneous ISA multi-core processors, where certain instructions can only be executed on specific processor cores, and (iii) systems with accelerated co-processors such as Digital Signal P...