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An adaptive chain-type treadmill-based traction testbed for the wheeled planetary exploration rover: Design, modeling and experimental validation

  • Haitao Yu*
  • , Cao Li
  • , Limeng Tan
  • , Shengjun Wang
  • , Haibo Gao
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Institute of Astronautical Systems Engineering
  • China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper present a novel chain-type treadmill-based traction testbed for the wheeled planetary exploration rover. The main objective of this work is to develop a customized testing system executing traction loading to the rover body together with drag torque loading to the individual wheels, providing a synthetic evaluation of the mobility performance of the Mar rover platform. The overall system is composed of a traction loading subsystem to perform the task of traction loading and six modular chain-type treadmill subsystems to provide the drag torques. In order to improve the loading precision onto the target objects of the rover, an adaptive loading control strategy with friction compensation is proposed to satisfy the tailored loading requirements of individual rover wheels as well as the rover body. Finally, the comprehensive experiments of a planetary exploration rover prototype including the synchronous motion tracking, the traction capacity testing as well as the varied wheel drag torque loading are implemented to validate the effectiveness of the devised testbed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1517-1523
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781728103556
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 22 Aug 201926 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
Volume2019-August
ISSN (Print)2161-8070
ISSN (Electronic)2161-8089

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2019
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period22/08/1926/08/19

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