Design Of A Mars Rover Suspension Mechanism
tarafından
Barlas, Fırat.
Başlık
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Design Of A Mars Rover Suspension Mechanism
Yazar
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Barlas, Fırat.
Yazar Ek Girişi
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Barlas, Fırat.
Yayın Bilgileri
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[s.l.]: [s.n.], 2004.
Fiziksel Tanımlama
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xiii, 75 leaves.: ill. + 1Computer laser optical disc.
Özet
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It is obvious that rovers are important vehicles of today.s solar system exploration. Most of the rover designs have been developed for Mars and Moon surface in order to understand the geological history of the soil and rocks. Exploration operations need high speed and long distance traversal in a short mission period due to environmental effects, climate and communication restrictions. Several mechanisms have been suggested in recent years for suspensions of rovers on rough terrain. Although their different mechanisms have found a widespread usage in mobile robotics, their low operation speed is still a challenging problem. In this research, a new suspension mechanism has been designed and its kinematic analysis results were discussed. Standard rocker-bogie suspension mechanism, which has been developed in the late 1990.s, has excellent weight distribution for different positions on rough terrain. New design, mostly similar to rocker-bogie suspension system, has a natural advantage with linear bogie motion which protects the whole system from getting rollover during high speed operations. This improvement increases the reliability of structure on field operations and also enables the higher speed exploration with same obstacle height capacity as rocker-bogie. In this thesis study, new bogie mechanism consisted of double-lambda mechanisms, which has been firstly presented by Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev in 1869, is solved by analytically to define the positions and singular configurations. A new structural synthesis formula also has been introduced for such suspension mechanisms with lower and higher kinematic pairs. By using structural synthesis methods, a suspension mechanism has been designed with double-lambda mechanism. Equivalent force and moment functions were also derived with equation of motion method. The results are confirmed with the computer analysis made by Visual Nastran 4D®. For this purpose, a computer model has been constructed and assembled with the same design parameters of NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER1 and MER2).
Konu Başlığı
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Mobile robots
Space robotics
Robotics
Yazar Ek Girişi
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Alizade, Rasim
Tüzel Kişi Ek Girişi
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İzmir Institute of Technology. Mechanical Engineering.
Tek Biçim Eser Adı
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Thesis (Master)--İzmir Institute of Technology: Mechanical Engineering.
İzmir Institute of Technology: Mechanical Engineering--Thesis (Master).
Elektronik Erişim
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Library | Materyal Türü | Demirbaş Numarası | Yer Numarası | Durumu/İade Tarihi |
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IYTE Library | Tez | T000338 | TJ211.415 .B22 2004 | Tez Koleksiyonu |