In developing mobile robots for exploration on the planetary surface, it is crucial to evaluate the robot's performance, demonstrating the harsh environment in which the robot will actually be deployed. Repeatable experiments in a controlled testing environment that can reproduce various terrain and gravitational conditions are essential. This paper presents the development of a minimal and space-saving indoor testbed, which can simulate steep slopes, uneven terrain, and lower gravity, employing a three-dimensional target tracking mechanism (active xy and passive z) with a counterweight.
@article{arxiv.2309.10268,
title = {Lower Gravity Demonstratable Testbed for Space Robot Experiments},
author = {Kentaro Uno and Kazuki Takada and Keita Nagaoka and Takuya Kato and Arthur Candalot and Kazuya Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10268},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
2 pages, 3 figures, paper accepted for the SII 2024 (IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration) (Updated references formatting)