Terrain Interaction With The Quarter Scale Beam Walker

W. Chun; S. Price; A. Spiessbach

doi:10.1117/12.969873

1 March 1990 Terrain Interaction With The Quarter Scale Beam Walker

W. Chun, S. Price, A. Spiessbach

Proceedings Volume 1195, Mobile Robots IV; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969873
Event: 1989 Symposium on Visual Communications, Image Processing, and Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

Frame walkers are a class of mobile robots that are robust and capable mobility platforms. Variations of the frame walker robot are in commercial use today. Komatsu Ltd. of Japan developed the Remotely Controlled Underwater Surveyor (ReCUS) and Normed Shipyards of France developed the Marine Robot (RM3). Both applications of the frame walker concept satisfied robotic mobility requirements that could not be met by a wheeled or tracked design. One vehicle design concept that falls within this class of mobile robots is the walking beam. A one-quarter scale prototype of the walking beam was built by Martin Marietta to evaluate the potential merits of utilizing the vehicle as a planetary rover. The initial phase of prototype rover testing was structured to evaluate the mobility performance aspects of the vehicle. Performance parameters such as vehicle power, speed, and attitude control were evaluated as a function of the environment in which the prototype vehicle was tested. Subsequent testing phases will address the integrated performance of the vehicle and a local navigation system.

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W. Chun, S. Price, and A. Spiessbach "Terrain Interaction With The Quarter Scale Beam Walker", Proc. SPIE 1195, Mobile Robots IV, (1 March 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969873

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