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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crsagepubl:10.5772/60974 2024-10-13T14:01:52+00:00 A Polar Rover for Large-Scale Scientific Surveys: Design, Implementation and Field Test Results He, Yuqing Chen, Cheng Bu, Chunguang Han, Jianda 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/60974 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.5772/60974 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.5772/60974 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems volume 12, issue 10 ISSN 1729-8806 1729-8814 journal-article 2015 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.5772/60974 2024-10-01T04:09:50Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic SAGE Publications Antarctic The Antarctic International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 12 10 145 |
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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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