Development of autonomous rover for asteroid surface exploration

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 01 Jan 2004Publisher:IEEEJournal:IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004

Authors: Tetsuo Yoshimitsu;

doi: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307442

Development of autonomous rover for asteroid surface exploration

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Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan has launched the engineering test spacecraft "HAYABUSA" on May 9, 2003 for the asteroid "ITOKAWA". HAYABUSA includes a very tiny rover named "MINERVA." MINERVA is the world-ever rover, which would move over an asteroid surface. The mission objectives of the rover are: (1) the establishment of the mobile system on the micro-gravity environment of small planetary bodies, and (2) the demonstration of fully autonomous exploration. This paper describes the design of the rover, especially focused on the two major objectives of MINERVA mission: the mobile system and the autonomous capabilities.

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