A Tumbleweed-mimicing Wind-Driven Rover for Planetary Exploration

摘要：

In this paper, a wind-driven planet exploring rover has been introduced, whose basic principle is based on a kind of plant called tumbleweed. The rover consists of a spherical steel skeleton and twelve airbags. The rover can complete acceleration, deceleration, stop, and clearing obstacles by inflating or deflating the twelve airbags. The motion control is simple and low cost, its therefore appropriate to explore extreme environments.

关键词： rover wind-driven rolling bionic tumbleweed

作者: LU Tian-yu ZHANG Xiu-li LIU Zeng-yuan ZHANG Ze-nan

作者单位: School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control engineering Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation(2010 智能计算技术与自动化国际会议 ICICTA 2010)

会议地点: 长沙

会议语种:英文

页码: 42-45

在线出版日期: 2010-05-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）