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Successful long-term settlements on the Moon will need a supply of resources such as oxygen and water, yet the process of regularly transporting these resources from Earth would be prohibitively costly and dangerous. One alternative would be an approach using heterogeneous, autonomous robotic teams, which could collect and extract these resources from the surrounding environment (in-situ resource utilization...
JAXA is carrying out research and development of a mobile robot (rover) aimed at construction of human outpost and scientific exploration on the lunar surface. The target areas for base construction and lunar exploration are mainly in mountainous zones, and the surface is covered by regolith. Achieving a steady run on such rough terrain is the big technical problem for rovers. A newly developed lightweight...
In future planetary exploration missions, robots are required to traverse over very rough terrain. On the surface of the moon there are covered with soils, which is named regolith. Regolith is easy to slide. Any stack may occur to the robots that are running on the regolith. Some researchers have studied the mobility system for robots. However the optimal and robust mobility systems have not been...
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