What the model changes
- Earth, Moon, Mars, and near-zero gravity
- Clear horizon or dust occlusion
- Intact six-wheel or sequential wheel loss
- Seeded lateral and vertical impulse
EMBODIED AUTONOMY UNDER GRAVITY TRANSITION
A rover should recover as the body it has now.
A six-wheel research simulation that releases fixed sensor assumptions when gravity, visibility, traction, or the body itself changes—then measures whether its recovery prediction actually worked.
4gravity regimes
3reweighted senses
6 → 5body transition
CSV + JSONexportable evidence
LIVE MODEL · SEEDED PHYSICS
Disturb the relationship
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SHORT-TERM EVENT THREAD
What changed, and what followed
- Body and gravity relationship initialized
EVIDENCE, NOT A SCREENSHOT
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Export quarter-second telemetry or a complete evidence bundle with state, comparison, event thread, and model disclaimer.
0 telemetry samples in this session02 / COMPARISON
Ask whether adaptation earns its complexity.
The fixed condition receives the same terrain, impacts, dust, body loss, and seeds—but keeps equal sensor weights, carries no relational support, and does not switch to an inertial recovery frame in near-zero gravity.
No result has been manufactured in advance.
Run the comparison in this browser. The table is produced from the same model used in the live lab.
03 / PROTOCOL
The experiment boundary
Clear enough to critique, reproduce, and replace.
What can develop
- Variance-derived sensor reliability weights
- Commit-or-refuse under disagreement
- Recovery gain and prediction support
- Soft inheritance across body signatures
What is measured
- Return to bounded pitch and angular velocity
- Recovery latency and failed predictions
- Traction slip, contacts, and progress
- Sensor weights and coherence over time
What this does not establish
- No high-fidelity terramechanics
- No hardware-in-the-loop or qualification
- No claim of consciousness or biological experience
- No NASA endorsement, validation, or affiliation
04 / RESEARCH BRIDGE
From sensorimotor reconditioning to robotic self-recovery.
NASA’s human research describes gravity transitions as a multisensory integration problem: cues adaptive in one environment may become maladaptive in another. Mission-relevant work emphasizes progressive adaptation, autonomous assessment, and recovery from off-nominal body positions.
This prototype asks a narrower engineering question: can a rover retain continuity without retaining false certainty about its sensors, traction, or body? The human findings motivate the test shape; they do not imply equivalence between astronauts and machines.
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