Beginning next century, several schemes for sending a planetary rover to the moon or Mars are being planned. As part of the development program, autonomous navigation technology is being studied to allow the rover the ability to move autonomously over a long range of unknown planetary surface. In the previous study, we ran the autonomous navigation experiment on an outdoor test terrain by using a rover test-bed that was controlled by a conventional sense-plan-act method. In some cases during the experiment, a problem occurred with the rover moving into untraversable areas. To improve this situation, a new control technique has been developed that gives the rover the ability of reacting to the outputs of the proximity sensors, a reaction behavior if you will. We have developed a new rover test-bed system on which an autonomous navigation experiment was performed using the newly developed control technique. In this outdoor experiment, the new control technique effectively produced the control command for the rover to avoid obstacles and be guided to the goal point safely.
Control Technique for Planetary Rover
1994
4 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Navigation, Guidance, & Control , Computers, Control & Information Theory , Architecture (Computers) , Automatic control , Autonomous navigation , Planetary surfaces , Robot control , Robot dynamics , Robot sensors , Robotics , Roving vehicles , Terrain analysis , Terrain following , Trajectory planning , Actuators , Computerized simulation , Directional control , Sensory discrimination , Sensory feedback , Sensory perception , Test stands , Foreign technology
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