A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results
Exploration of polar regions is of great importance to scientific research. Unfortunately, due to the harsh environment, most of the regions on the Antarctic continent are still unreachable for humankind. Therefore, in 2011, the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) launched a pro...
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| description | Exploration of polar regions is of great importance to scientific research. Unfortunately, due to the harsh environment, most of the regions on the Antarctic continent are still unreachable for humankind. Therefore, in 2011, the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) launched a project to design a rover to conduct large-scale scientific surveys on the Antarctic. The main challenges for the rover are twofold: one is the mobility, i.e., how to make a rover that could survive the harsh environment and safely move on the uneven, icy and snowy terrain; the other is the autonomy, in that the robot should be able to move at a relatively high speed with little or no human intervention so that it can explore a large region in a limit time interval under the communication constraints. In this paper, the corresponding techniques, especially the polar rover's design and autonomous navigation algorithms, are introduced in detail. Subsequently, an experimental report of the fields tests on the Antarctic is given to show some preliminary evaluation of the rover. Finally, experiences and existing challenging problems are summarized. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a4d943b760b4a72b9d4bf9dd441c47d2022-12-22T00:23:12ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems1729-88142015-10-011210.5772/6097410.5772_60974A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test ResultsYuqing He0Cheng Chen1Chunguang Bu2Jianda Han3 State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, ChinaExploration of polar regions is of great importance to scientific research. Unfortunately, due to the harsh environment, most of the regions on the Antarctic continent are still unreachable for humankind. Therefore, in 2011, the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) launched a project to design a rover to conduct large-scale scientific surveys on the Antarctic. The main challenges for the rover are twofold: one is the mobility, i.e., how to make a rover that could survive the harsh environment and safely move on the uneven, icy and snowy terrain; the other is the autonomy, in that the robot should be able to move at a relatively high speed with little or no human intervention so that it can explore a large region in a limit time interval under the communication constraints. In this paper, the corresponding techniques, especially the polar rover's design and autonomous navigation algorithms, are introduced in detail. Subsequently, an experimental report of the fields tests on the Antarctic is given to show some preliminary evaluation of the rover. Finally, experiences and existing challenging problems are summarized.https://doi.org/10.5772/60974 |
| spellingShingle | Yuqing He Cheng Chen Chunguang Bu Jianda Han A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems |
| title | A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results |
| title_full | A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results |
| title_fullStr | A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results |
| title_short | A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results |
| title_sort | polar rover for large scale scientific surveys design implementation and field test results |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5772/60974 |
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