Proposal of a pico-class robotic platform primarily intended for future lunar exploration

Institute of Space Systems •Proposal of a pico-class robotic platform primarily intended for future lunar exploration •Inspired by Cubesat standard •Affordable and easy to manufacture design •Allows universities to develop and perform own rover-based missions Possible Fields of Research PicoBot Platform •Design Objective: To offer university students a simple robotic template •Minimizing the development time to two years •Utilizing the alternating tripod gait • Adapted from simple insects like the cockroach • Locomotion can be realized with only two actuators. • Comparison to typical rovers design: Lower number in ‘degrees of freedom‘ Higher demand for a simple environment. • Main advantage Minimizes the complexity of the control-algorithm Reduces the mass as well as the cost PicoBots – A Small-Sized Exploration Rover Standard for Universities DLR’s role •Offer experience from REXUS/BEXUS •Act as mediator between students and organizations or space agencies with Lunar Lander programs •Scientific and payload support •General project assistance Planning/Organization Educational courses and training Google Lunar X Prize SELENE-2 Luna-Glob 2 Chang’e 3 Luna-Grunt 1 Luna-Grunt 2 ILN Node 1 & 2 ILN Node 3 & 4 ESA Lunar Lander 2012 2017 Still to be done •Adapt the UC Berkley designed robots to space/Lunar environment •Selection of Rapid Prototyp-able, space- qualified base material •Storage box for single and multiple PicoBots •Separation/Release mechanism Future Piggyback Opportunities Relative Positioning Communication Relaying Distributed Systems Swarm Intelligence Geology Analysis And Shaping Prese nt Futur e MEMS Seismolog y Gravimetry Radiometr y Design by: UC Berkley Design by: UC Berkley

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Institute ofSpace Systems

•Proposal of a pico-class robotic platform primarily intended for future lunar exploration

•Inspired by Cubesat standard•Affordable and easy to manufacture design •Allows universities to develop and perform own rover-based missions

Possible Fields of Research

PicoBot Platform

•Design Objective: To offer university students a simple robotic template•Minimizing the development time to two years•Utilizing the alternating tripod gait

• Adapted from simple insects like the cockroach• Locomotion can be realized with only two actuators. • Comparison to typical rovers design:

Lower number in ‘degrees of freedom‘ Higher demand for a simple environment.

• Main advantageMinimizes the complexity of the control-algorithm Reduces the mass as well as the cost

PicoBots – A Small-Sized Exploration Rover Standard for Universities

DLR’s role

•Offer experience from REXUS/BEXUS•Act as mediator between students and

organizations or space agencies with Lunar Lander programs

•Scientific and payload support•General project assistance

Planning/Organization Educational courses and training

Google Lunar X Prize

SELENE-2

Luna-Glob 2