Title
Small Body Exploration Robot with Hopping Mechanism
Abstract
For future exploration missions to small planetary bodies, in-situ surface observation by robots would be a promising method to investigate the target body whose surface gravity is very weak. The authors have studied mobility system under the micro gravity environment and developed a mobility mechanism which drives a robot by hopping. This paper proposes a new mobility system to have hopping and landing functions under micro-gravity environment. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism is confirmed by some computer simulations and experiments.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
IASTED: PROCEEDINGS OF THE IASTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND APPLICATIONS
hopping robot,micro-gravity,landing,spring and linear actuator
Field
DocType
Citations 
Simulation,Computer science,Robot
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Kubota13616.92
Shingo Shimoda213520.49
Tetsuo Yoshimitsu363.26
Ichiro Nakatani44710.56