Title :
Ground mobility systems for planetary exploration
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
Surveys past and current designs of surface mobility systems for planetary exploration robots developed at JPL/Caltech. Wheeled rovers are discussed in some detail and compared to new designs, such as legged and hopping robots, which are emerging as viable alternatives to wheeled mobility for specific applications. The paper discusses the main features of mobility designs and summarizes some of the experimental results
Keywords :
aerospace robotics; legged locomotion; planetary rovers; JPL/Caltech; ground mobility systems; hopping robots; legged robots; planetary exploration; surface mobility systems; wheeled mobility; wheeled rovers; Application specific integrated circuits; Couplings; Laboratories; Legged locomotion; Mars; Mobile robots; Propulsion; Testing; Vehicles; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5886-4
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844164
