Research/ PLANETARY ROBOTICS
J192012 Development of Lunar Rover Model "LUBOT"
Ichiro Nakatani, Shimchiro NISHIDA, Yuji KATAYAMA, Yasuo MORI
The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress Japan 2012/
Space × RoboticsPLANETARY ROBOTICS
Technique
Surface Mobility & TerramechanicsOpenAlex topic: Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
A joint R&D on a moon exploration rover, LUBOT (LUnar roBOT) is underway by AUT (Aichi University of Technology) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) The target mission is exploring the top of a 2000m class central peak of one of moon craters To negotiate steep slopes and unstructured terrains of the moon mountains covered with regolith, a new type of suspension mechanism which we call "pantagraph suspension", is proposed It has a significant advantage over a conventional rocker-bogie type suspension which is asymmetric relative to forward/backward movement