DocumentCode
3171779
Title
"Tri-Star3"; Horizontal Polyarticular Arm Equipped 3-Wheeled Expandable Rover
Author
Tadakuma, Kenjiro ; Matsumoto, Morio ; Hirose, S.
fYear
2006
fDate
Oct. 2006
Firstpage
5
Lastpage
5
Abstract
The expandable-type rover, which retracts in the spaceship and expands after reaching upon landing seems to be effective as the planetary rover. In our laboratory, "Tri-Star3"; a horizontal poly-articulated expandable 3-wheeled planetary rover based on the expandable rover has been developed. Tri-Star3 has just only three wheels and passive joints with braking mechanisms. This rover expands or changes its own shape by the driving force produced by each wheel when the joints are free to rotate. Because of these reasons, this rover is comparatively light-weight is cheap to manufacture and it is easy to operated.
Keywords
Crawlers; Joints; Legged locomotion; Manufacturing; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Shape; Skeleton; Vehicles; Wheels;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0259-X
Electronic_ISBN
1-4244-0259-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2006.282290
Filename
4058364
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