主催: 一般社団法人 日本機械学会
会議名: ロボティクス・メカトロニクス 講演会2017
開催日: 2017/05/10 - 2017/05/13
Planetary surface mobility is one of the key technologies for future deep space missions. However conventional rovers are so big and expensive. To enhance robotic surface exploration missions, small, light-weight explorers are required. Therefore this paper proposes a new hopping locomotion system for small planetary rover using shape-memory-alloy(SMA) actuator. The proposed mechanism is analysed based on SMA constitutive mathematical model. Simulation results show that proposed mechanism has the capability of horizontally 2.5 m jump under the 1/6 gravity environment.