Simulation travelling environment for lunar rover

Builded lunar terrain in order to test the lunar rover in the infield, the research mainly included preparation for the morphology of terrain, the physical and mechanical characteristics of lunar soil simulant. In the respect of the morphology of terrain, developed a 3D measuring system based on the electronic total station, measured the geometric parameters of the terrain in the infield, positioned the lunar craters and lunar rocks when prepared the infield of rover. In the respect of the physical and mechanical characteristics of lunar soil simulant, made the formulation processes to prepared different conditions of lunar soil simulant, evaluated the results of lunar soil simulant after prepared simplify by measuring the cone index and the bulk density. The results of experiments showed that the lunar surface simulant in the infield could be used for testing the lunar rover. The prepared method for lunar soil simulant had been used for testing lunar rover in the soil bin and the infield succeed.