The productivity of scientific exploration of the Moon and Mars has been significantly improved through the mobility of roving vehicles (rovers) since these vehicles allow scientists to conduct operations well beyond the immediate vicinity of the landing area. This paper reports on a quantitative approach developed to evaluate the productivity of alternative human and robot work-system alternatives for a lunar science mission. A graph-search approach for task planning was used for assigning human and robotic work systems to scientific tasks in order to evaluate the productivity of different mobility options. The results were used to identify the benefits and costs of alternative rover combinations in order to establish guidelines for the roles of the different vehicle types. Pressurized rovers displayed advantages over unpressurized rovers due to enhanced range and duration yielding more science productivity. Multiple pressurized rovers were found to be more productive than multiple unpressurized rovers.


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    Title :

    Mobility productivity impacts on selection of lunar exploration architectures


    Contributors:
    Smith, Jeffrey H. (author) / Elfes, A. (author) / Hua, H. (author) / Mrozinski, J. (author) / Shelton, K. (author) / Lincoln, W. (author) / Adumitroaie, V. (author) / Weisbin, C. (author)


    Publication date :

    2009-03-01


    Size :

    1132105 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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