Planetary surface exploration micro-rovers for collecting data about the Moon and Mars have been designed by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho. The goal of both projects was to design a rover concept that best satisfied the project objectives for NASA/Ames. A second goal was to facilitate student learning about the process of design. The first micro-rover is a deployment mechanism for the Mars Environmental Survey (MESUR) Alpha Particle/Proton/X-ray (APX) Instrument. The system is to be launched with the 16 MESUR landers around the turn of the century. A Tubular Deployment System and a spiked-legged walker have been developed to deploy the APX from the lander to the Martian Surface. While on Mars, the walker is designed to take the APX to rocks to obtain elemental composition data of the surface. The second micro-rover is an autonomous, roving vehicle to transport a sensor package over the surface of the moon. The vehicle must negotiate the lunar terrain for a minimum of one year by surviving impacts and withstanding the environmental extremes. The rover is a reliable track-driven unit that operates regardless of orientation that NASA can use for future lunar exploratory missions. This report includes a detailed description of the designs and the methods and procedures which the University of Idaho design teams followed to arrive at the final designs.


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    Titel :

    Planetary Surface Exploration Mesur/Autonomous Lunar Rover


    Beteiligte:
    L. Stauffer (Autor:in) / M. Dilorenzo (Autor:in) / D. Austin (Autor:in) / R. Ayers (Autor:in) / D. Burton (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1992


    Format / Umfang :

    13 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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