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International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications

ICIRA 2017: Intelligent Robotics and Applications pp 261–272Cite as

Novel Design of a Family of Legged Mobile Lander

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During extraterrestrial planet exploration programs, autonomous robots are deployed using separate landers. In this paper, a concept of a novel legged robot is introduced which has inbuilt the features of lander and rover, including landing and walking capabilities as well as being deployable, orientation adjusted and terrain adaptable. Firstly, motion characteristics of the novel legged robot mapping its functions are extracted, which can be divided into global and local motion characteristics. Secondly, structures of legs are designed according to the extracted motion characteristics, mainly composed of upper and lower parts. Finally, numerous structures of legged mobile landers are obtained and presented by assembling the same or different structures of legs.

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The author thanks the partial financial supports under the projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51323005, Nos. 51335007, U1613208), the National Basic Research Program of China, (Grant No. 2013CB035501), and the research project of State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration (Grant No. NSVZD201608).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Rongfu Lin & Weizhong Guo

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  1. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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  2. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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  3. Institute of Industrial Research, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    Honghai Liu

  4. School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Zhouping Yin

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Lin, R., Guo, W. (2017). Novel Design of a Family of Legged Mobile Lander. In: Huang, Y., Wu, H., Liu, H., Yin, Z. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65292-4_23

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