宇宙エレベーター用クライマにおける駆動ローラの設計と機構解析

(第２報，クライマー地上実験設備による性能試験)

抄録

To verify driving mechanism and the endurance performance of the climber who developed for the space elevator, the experiment to make the climber vertically go up and down is needed. There was no experiment equipment that can hang the tether of the length of 100 m or more usually, up to now, it has experimented with SPEC that the space elevator society sponsors. However, it was not possible to experiment enough because the experiment period and the use time are limited. In this research, the development of the ground-testing facility where the climber did not go up and down but the tether was rotated like the loop was executed. The main body of the climber rests relatively because the climber moves in the opposite direction at the same speed as the tether. It became easy to develop of driving mechanism more efficient and to set the operating condition with this device. In this paper, the outline of ground-testing facility and the result of performance experiment are reported.