Experimental Study of Lunar Rover Wheel’s Motion Performance on Korean Lunar Soil Simulant

Cheng-Can Wang; Jin-Tae Han

doi:10.7843/kgs.2016.32.11.97

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Experimental Study of Lunar Rover Wheel’s Motion Performance on Korean Lunar Soil Simulant 한국형 인공월면토를 이용한 달탐사 로버 휠 성능평가 실험 연구

30 November 2016. pp. 97-108

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Abstract

Lunar rover plays an important role in lunar exploration. Especially, performance of rover wheel related to interaction with lunar soil is of great importance when it comes to optimization of rover’s configuration. In this study, in order to investigate the motion performance of lunar rover’s wheel on Korean Lunar Soil Simulant (KLS-1), a single wheel testbed was developed and used to carry out a series of experiments with two kinds of wheel with grousers and without grousers which were used to perform the experiments. Wheel traction performance was evaluated by using traction parameters such as drawbar pull, torque and sinkage correlated with slip ratio. The results showed that the single wheel testbed was suitable for evaluation of the performance of wheel and rover wheel with grousers which was likely to have higher traction performance than that without grousers in Korean Lunar soil simulant. The experimental results could be utilized in verification of the optimum wheel design and effectiveness of wheel traction for Korean lunar rover.

Keywords

Lunar rover

Single wheel testbed

Drawbar pull

KLS-1

Grouser

달 탐사시 탐사 로버는 반드시 필요하며, 특히 월면토와 로버 휠의 상호작용에 의한 로버 휠의 성능은 로버의 최적 형상을 결정하는데 있어서 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 한국형 인공 월면토(KLS-1)에서 달 탐사 로버 휠의 거동 성능을 평가하기 위하여 단일 휠 성능평가 실험장비를 개발하였고, 이를 이용하여 그라우져 유무에 따른 휠 성능 평가 실험을 수행하였다. 휠 성능은 슬립율에 따른 견인력, 토크, 침하 등으로 평가하였으며, 실험 결과 개발된 단일 휠 성능평가 실험장비는 휠 성능을 적절히 평가하는 것으로 나타났으며, 한국형 인공 월면토에서 그라우져가 있는 휠이 그라우져가 없는 휠에 비해 높은 견인 성능을 보여주었다. 향후 본 실험은 한국형 로버의 최적 휠 결정을 위해 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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Publisher :The Korean Geotechnical Society
Publisher(Ko) :한국지반공학회
Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
Journal Title(Ko) :한국지반공학회 논문집
Volume : 32
No :11
Pages :97-108
Received Date : 2016-10-17
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2016.32.11.97

Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society ISSN:1229-2427(Print) 2288-646X(Online) 한국지반공학회 논문집

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