A Novel Mars Rover Concept for Astronaut Operational Support on Surface EVA Missions

Bernard, Tiziano; Martusevich, Kirill; Rolins, Armando A.; Spence, Isaac; Troshchenko, A. V.; Chintalapati, Sunil

doi:10.2514/6.2018-5154

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“…Though the rover was effective in radio-telemetry operations, no specific subsystem related to autonomous navigation, primary manipulator operation and science mission operations were mentioned in the research. Similarly, T. Bernard et al [23] developed a six-wheel rover consisting of three main subsystems: the rocker-bogie suspension, the counter-rotating differential and a base plate that houses both the electronic equipment and the custom-designed robotic arm of the rover. Bearing a truss structure, the robotic arm had three linkages: a shoulder, an elbow and a wrist link with a custom-built end-effector at the extremity of the wrist link with six operational degrees of freedom (DOF).…”

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“…Unlike few of the prior works [22], [23], PHOENIX is equipped with an autonomous navigation system which is capable of path planning towards a set of GPS location defined goals that are marked by AR-tag and can avoid the obstacles en route. Most of the previous works [23], [24] highlighted the collection of sample capability and developed a soil habitability testing subsystem. PHOENIX has incorporated these works, and extended upon the functionalities to develop a unique scientific exploration subsystem capable of on-board life detection from both rock and soil samples.…”

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Phoenix: Towards Designing and Developing a Human Assistant Rover

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Majib²,

Tanjim³

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IEEE Access

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Human-assistance rovers have a broad prospect in the field of space robotics, as a significant number of organizations and researchers have been investing in the design and development of sophisticated rovers for planetary exploration. In order to promote research and development in the design of nextgeneration MARS rovers, an annual University Rover Challenge (URC) is hosted by the MARS Society in the United States. In this study, we highlight the design and development process of several novel subsystems of a human-assistance planetary exploration rover and their successive integration in the prototype named PHOENIX, which is a rover that participated in the URC 2021. First, a detailed requirement elicitation has been conducted, for designing a conceptual framework for a rover capable of planetary exploration. Secondly, the design and development process has been detailed for five basic subsystems (power, communication, primary-manipulator, chassis with drive, processing) and two mission-specific subsystems (scientific exploration and autonomous navigation), as well as their successive integration into the rover. Afterwards, a detailed evaluation study has been conducted in order to validate the performance of the developed system. Terrain traversability, autonomy in navigation, and sophisticated task execution capabilities have been evaluated individually within this study. Additionally, the capability of the rover in detecting bio-signatures from soil samples using a novel Multiple Bio-molecular Rapid Life Detection (MBLDP-R) protocol has also been evaluated. The developed scientific exploration subsystem is capable of detecting the presence of life from soil samples with a 92% success rate, and from rock samples with a success rate of 93.33%.

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“…Combining the high accuracy and speed of robots with the expertise of humans, cobots are used to reduce high-risk and/or laborious work requiring human intervention, thus, reducing work-related accidents. Collaborative robots are used in various applications, such as in industry (Hentout et al, 2019) for manufacturing and assembling, in robotics for rehabilitation (Aggogeri et al, 2019) nursing (Robinson et al, 2014), and in space exploration (Bernard et al, 2018). Underwater human-robot collaboration is another potential application in this field of research Mišković et al, 2015;Gomez Chavez et al, 2019).…”

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“…habilitation (Aggogeri et al, 2019) nursing (Robinson et al, 2014), and in space exploration (Bernard et al, 2018).…”

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Diver tracking in open waters: A low‐cost approach based on visual and acoustic sensor fusion

Remmas

Chemori

Kruusmaa

2020

Journal of Field Robotics

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The design of a robust perception method is a substantial component towards achieving underwater human-robot collaboration. However, in complex environments such as the oceans, perception is still a challenging issue. Data-fusion of different sensing modalities can improve perception in dynamic and unstructured ocean environments. This work addresses the control of a highly-maneuverable autonomous underwater vehicle for diver tracking based on visual and acoustic signals data fusion measured by low-cost sensors. The underwater vehicle U-CAT tracks a diver using a 3-DOF fuzzy logic Mamdani controller. The proposed tracking approach was validated through open water real-time experiments. Combining acoustic and visual signals for underwater target tracking provides several advantages compared to previously done related research. The obtained results suggest that the proposed * Corresponding author solution ensures effective detection and tracking in poor visibility operating conditions.

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A Novel Mars Rover Concept for Astronaut Operational Support on Surface EVA Missions

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Phoenix: Towards Designing and Developing a Human Assistant Rover

Diver tracking in open waters: A low‐cost approach based on visual and acoustic sensor fusion

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