Infos zum Thema rover

Longueuil, Quebec, November 25, 2010 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is awarding two contracts valued at $11.5 million each to MDA and Neptec Design Group of Ottawa. Each company will develop two fully functional terrestrial prototypes of a lunar rover that could one day be part of a future space exploration mission. The investment flows from the Government of Canada’s 2009 Economic Action Plan, and aims to accelerate the development of terrestrial prototypes and their associated technologies to prepare Canada to play a credible role in future international exploration opportunities.

Part 1: Rovers There are so many awesome rover activities taking place within the RCSP Team. Internal to Dynetics, we had Charles Tullock talk about the work with rovers he is doing with our team members like John Stingel and his students at the Huntsville Center for Technology.

Vehicle design. Three wheels powered by stepper motors gives the vehicle the ability to travel and to steer in desired direction (limited but ability). However, positioning an antenna to the Earth direction will require something more than a stepper motor’s steps with 1.8 degree precisions.

Es handelt sich also um Plastikkugeln, in die man seinen Hamster oder seine Maus etc. steckt, damit er/sie "Auslauf" bekommt, indem das Tier in der Kugel läuft und diese so durchs Zimmer bewegt. Der "Vorteil" daran soll wohl sein, dass das Tier damit nicht unter Schränke etc. geraten kann und man es durch das Geräusch der Kugel auch leichter wiederfinden können soll.

The third and final DC/DC converter has successfully been integrated into the rover’s power system. These converters are essential to the rover functioning, as they convert the 28 volts of the rover’s battery into smaller voltages for the onboard electronics. This particular converter takes in battery voltage and provides five volts to the rover’s flight computer

Robots destined for the field require extensive prototyping and testing in analogous terrain. One destined for a multi-day, long-distance trek on the moon must first demonstrate similar capabilities at a sister site on earth. As such, a full systems test from post-landing egress to nighttime hibernation and revival will be undertaken in May with a pre-flight prototype.

RHex is a power - and computation - autonomous hexapod robot with compliant legs and only one actuator per leg. It is the first documented autonomous legged machine to have exhibited general mobility (speeds at bodylengths per second) over general terrain (variations in level at bodyheight scale)

Mar 1, 2011. 16 month left to a dead line. Was made an attempt to re-design a vehicle. It will be third re-design from beginning of a project, first was flip-flop movement with 5 segments, 8 stepper motors and 2 segments/antennas used as helping legs. First design was abandoned because of a high weight (8kg) and sophisticated gears which does not reduce mass also.

RHex is a biologically inspired hexapedal robot invented and first characterized at the dawn of the century as part of a large DARPA funded consortium. A variety of RHex platforms have been developed since that time, and our lab has been particularly active in developing new versions for studying biologically inspired locomotion, gait control, and sensor based

The Whegs™ series robots utilize a method of locomotion that combines the advantages of wheels and legs (wheel-legs). Wheels are relatively simple, and allow a vehicle to to move over terrain quickly. Legs allow robots to climb obstacles that are higher than what a wheeled vehicle would be able to climb over.