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Modular Rover Design for Exploration and Analytical Tasks

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Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems (MESAS 2019)

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Rovers and other unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) were a matter of space exploration or post-disaster reconnaissance. Rovers work in tough conditions where presence of a human is uncomfortable or dangerous. This results in main requirements for rover - durable chassis, stable communication for direct control or transfer of data and task-specific tools for experiments and measurements. In this article we propose solutions for fulfilling those requirements.

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This work was sponsored among others by the Research Platform focused on Industry 4.0 and Robotics in Ostrava Agglomeration project, project number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008425 within the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education. This work has been also supported by specific research project SP2019/69 financed by the state budget of the Czech Republic.

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    Robert Pastor, Daniel Huczala, Aleš Vysocký, Petr Oščádal, Jakub Mlotek, Dominik Heczko, Zdeněk Zeman & Petr Široký

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Pastor, R. et al. (2020). Modular Rover Design for Exploration and Analytical Tasks. In: Mazal, J., Fagiolini, A., Vasik, P. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43890-6_16

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