1990 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Integrated Control of Locomotion and Manipulation for Lunar-Working Vehicle in Working on Rough Terrains
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01460123
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
機械力学・制御工学
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| Research Institution | University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
IGUCHI Masakazu University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering Professor, 工学部, 教授 (60010683)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IMAIZUMI Hirohide University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering Assistant, 工学部, 助手 (70010858)
FUJIOKA Takehiko University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (60167624)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1990
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| Keywords | Mechanical Dynamics / Control Engineering / Vehicle Dynamics / Robotics / Lunar-working Vehicle / Working on Rough Terrains / Attitude Control |
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| Research Abstract |
When a working vehicle moves or works on a rough terrain, we need to combine locomotion and manipulation. The purpose of this research is to integrate the two posture control systems of these functions (locomotion and manipulation) and to make a system which spread the functions and improve the reli
ability. With the first experimental lunar-working vehicle, we have realized the integrated control of locomotion and manipulation staticly. The vehicle can work stably by making use of its redundancy, and locomote on a terrain which is too rough for an ordinary vehicle to move.
The second experimental vehicle has become able to control dynamically. On the moon, the gravity is one sixth as on the earth. But inertia force is as same as on the earth. So when it works or moves, the vehicle is liable to fall down. To deal with this problem, we have developed the method of the posture control for the working vehicle under low-gravity environment. The method is one to combine feedback control and feedforward control in co-operation with all its arms and legs.
The lunar surface consists of regolith (like sand), and the lunar ground is very weak. So when the vehicle moves or works, the ground is easy to transform. And the vehicle is easy to slip. Then we also have planned the control method on such a weak ground.
With the experimental working vehicle and the equipment which could simulate both the one sixth gravity and the weak ground on the moon, we made some experiments of working and moving and confirmed the validity of the proposed control methods.
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