Title

Kinematic Modeling Of Terrain Adapting Wheeled Mobile Robot For Mars Exploration

Abstract

Wheeled robot movement over unstructured terrain is usually referred to as roving. A primary target for a roving mission is surface reconnaissance and survey for in-situ data collection. Planetary roving is a direct way of exploring Mars, and allows Earth based scientists to directly contact the rock and soils on the planet. This paper discusses the kinematics and mechanical design aspects of one such unique rover configuration for Mars exploration. Individual transformation matrices are developed concatenating the various joints, and a forward kinematics solution is used to develop wheel Jacobians, and a composite rover solution which is used to determine rover heading and position estimation. The current rover configuration is compared with contemporary rovers, where necessary.

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, RoMoCo 2002

Number of Pages

291-296

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMOCO.2002.1177122

Socpus ID

84953382065 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84953382065

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