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Study on the landing mechanism employed in asteroid exploration

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Different landing exploration modes of small bodies are discussed. A landing mechanism employed in the asteroid landing exploration is designed. It contains landing foot, landing gear, cardan, buffer mechanism, equipment base, anchor system, and so on. The landing mechanism could fold up to reduce space occupation in the spacecraft. It could fix itself on the landing slope under microgravity via the anchor system. The anchor system's penetrating and anchoring capability is examined in the frozen earth. The landing performance under microgravity is tested on the air-floating platform. Experiments show that the landing mechanism could perform landing under microgravity and anchoring itself firmly on the landing slope.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012
Pages1032-1037
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20128 Aug 2012

Publication series

Name2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012

Conference

Conference2012 9th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period5/08/128/08/12

Keywords

  • Anchoring
  • Asteroid exploration
  • Landing mechanism
  • Microgravity

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