A taxonomy of planetary exploration rovers is presented, followed by a review of systems used in missions and in an experimental phase. The baseline design emerges as four or six wheels, rocker-bogie based passive suspension and all wheel driving/selected wheel steering. A trend is also apparent in the use of wheel — legged hybrid locomotion. The performance metrics are presented by which the differing configurations of the locomotion subsystem for wheeled rovers with a passive suspension may be systematically evaluated. The taxonomy and aggregated metrics presented in this paper aid in the comparison and selection of rover characteristics, while the baseline design is a representative example of current practices and future trends.


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    Title :

    Taxonomy, systems review and performance metrics of planetary exploration rovers


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    Publication date :

    2014-12-01


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    117225 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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