Inflatable rovers for planetary applications
Inflatable rovers for planetary applications
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用于行星应用的充气漫游车
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1999
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Jiuum J. Wu
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J. Jones;Jiuum J. Wu
喷气推进实验室(JPL)最近启动了一项新任务，设计、制造和测试一种可用于各种行星应用的充气漫游车，包括在地球的月球、火星、土星的卫星土卫六和木星的卫星欧罗巴上运行。主要的应用是在火星上运行，因此，正在开发的原型模型具有大型充气轮子(直径1.5米)，可以穿越99%以上的火星表面，据信火星表面由直径小于0.5米的岩石组成。这个20公斤重的原型需要18瓦才能在地球上以2公里/小时的速度行驶，并且能够以大约100瓦的功率在火星上以30公里/小时的速度行驶。试验台模型已经用一个简单的‘喜悦棒’型无线电控制系统和一个商业上可以买到的色彩跟踪摄像系统进行了测试。
A new task has recently been initiated at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, fabricate and test an inflatable rover that can be used for various planetary applications, including operation on the Earth’s moon, on Mars, on Saturn’s moon Titan and on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The primary application is for operation on Mars and, as such, the prototype model in development has large inflatable wheels (1.5-m diameter) that can traverse over 99 percent of the Martian surface, which is believed to be populated by rocks smaller than 0.5 meters in diameter. The 20-kg prototype requires 18 W to travel 2 km/hr on Earth, and could be capable of traveling 30 km/hr on Mars with about 100 W of power. The bench-model unit has been tested with a simple ‘joy stick’ type of radio control system as well as with a commercially available color-tracking camera system.