Building on a comprehensive review of existing and future planetary robotic missions, this chapter uses the system engineering design philosophy and discusses the mission‐driven design considerations, the system‐level design drivers as well as the subsystem design trade‐offs for a robotic system, whether the mission is set to explore the lunar craters, the Martian landscape, or beyond. Having introduced the system design philosophy and general tools, the chapter presents the state‐of‐the‐art design and development examples of primary robotic platforms demonstrated through existing and future exploration missions. It identifies the space environmental factors that should be considered by any planetary robotic system design for a given mission, namely gravity, temperature, atmosphere/vacuum, orbital characteristics, and surface conditions, and so on. The chapter describes the design drivers based on the mission targets and objectives. It reviews the robotic system operation sequence and design options that allow the robot to vary its level of autonomy between teleoperation and full autonomy.


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    Title :

    Planetary Robotic System Design


    Contributors:
    Gao, Yang (editor) / Allouis, Elie (author) / Gao, Yang (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-09-06


    Size :

    93 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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