Bekker's Derived Terramechanics Model (BDTM) is an analytical tool for evaluating vehicle off-road mobility. BDTM has been developed using Bekker's equations for vehicle soil interactions. He developed the bevameter technique to measure mechanical strength characteristics for many soil and snow conditions. BDTM is in a spreadsheet format, and its primary purpose is to compare mobility characteristics for robotic track and wheeled vehicles under different terrain conditions. Bekker's model is a simple, linear one degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) model, which assumes that in a perfectly cohesive soil (i.e. clay), soil thrust is only a function of contact surfacearea. The model also assumes that for a perfection cohesionless or frictional soil (i.e. dry sand), soil thrust is a function of vehicular weight. This paper attempts to compare the mobility characteristics of wheeled vs. track vehicles for different size, weight and terrain conditions.


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    Title :

    Off-road vehicle locomotion using Bekker's model


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology II ; 2000 ; Orlando,FL,USA


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-07-10





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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