Abstract
To clarify the internal and global information of the Moon is very important in future lunar exploration. This paper describes a lunar subsurface exploration system to bury a seismometer in the lunar regolith by a burrowing robot. The authors have proposed a new screw drilling mechanism for a burrowing robot to achieve that purpose, in particular this paper describes the concept of expansion to the complete burrowing system applying the screw mechanism. The authors call the novel robot BSR (Burrowing Screw Robot). Also in this paper, the authors consider the requirements of the design concepts for developing the BSR and the experimental environments.
