Design and Mobility Evaluation of a Crawler-Type Lunar Vehicle

Wakabayashi, Shigeo; Sato, Hitoshi; Matsumoto, Kohtaro

doi:10.1061/40830(188)91

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“…Nano-rovers may not be independent in operation, but are powered by the Lander through tethers. 10 Findings and results…”

Section: Soil Interactionmentioning

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“…It is extremely complex to integrate all the miniaturized components. The components require slow, delicate and careful handling.The Advanced Space Technology research group of JAXA proposes a tracker for SELENE-I1 lunar mission[10].…”

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“…Description of JAXA's tracker[10] The mobility system for this tracker consists of four caterpillar crawl units with two on each side…”

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Robot Mobility Concepts for Extraterrestrial Surface Exploration

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Rebele

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2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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Future space missions are directed to robotic precursor missions to nearby celestial objects. Various science experiments are meant to be performed by autonomous robotic vehicles including detection of widely speculated polar-ice in lunar craters and detect signs of past life on Mars. The locomotion subsystem plays a key role in moving a robot on a surface with high performance capabilities, irrespective of the nature of the terrain. Locomotion on extraterrestrial surfaces can be achieved by a wheeled rover, tracked rover, legged walker or a hybrid vehicle. The first three modes can be classified based on the number of wheels, tracks, or legs the robot possesses. Hybrids can be either a wheeled-leg or a legged-track combination.

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“…Nano-rovers may not be independent in operation, but are powered by the Lander through tethers. 10 Findings and results…”

Section: Soil Interactionmentioning

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Robot Mobility Concepts for Extraterrestrial Surface Exploration

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2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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“…The main disadvantages of a tracked vehicle are weight and a large number of parts that could cause a breakdown if they were to fail. As ordinary crawler links using pins and bushes are heavy and have many potential breakdown points, a new crawler link design was needed [11].…”

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Design and mobility evaluation of tracked lunar vehicle

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Sato

Nishida

2009

Journal of Terramechanics

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“…The Advanced Space Technology research group in JAXA proposes a tracker for SELENE-II lunar mission (Wakabayashi et al, 2006). The mobility system for this tracker consists of four caterpillar crawl units with two on both sides (Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%