Field Experiments in Mobility and Navigation with a Lunar Rover Prototype

Autor:	Scott Moreland, Spencer Spiker, David Wettergreen, James Teza, Dominic Jonak, David Kohanbash
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	FOS: Computer and information sciences Chassis Drill business.industry 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics Drilling In situ resource utilization Coring Field (computer science) Impact crater Aerospace engineering Descent (aeronautics) business Geology
Zdroj:	Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ISBN: 9783642134074 FSR
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-642-13408-1_44
Popis:	Scarab is a prototype rover for lunar missions to survey resources, particularly water ice, in polar craters. It is designed as a prospector that would use a deep coring drill and apply soil analysis instruments. Its chassis can transform to stabilize its drill in contact with the ground and can also adjust posture to ascend and descent steep slopes. Scarab has undergone field testing at lunar analogue sites in Washington and Hawaii in an effort to quantify and validate its mobility and navigation capabilities. We report on results of experiments in slope ascent and descent and in autonomous kilometer-distance navigation in darkness.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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