Lunar Rover Navigation--Future

Lunar Rover Navigation 1996
Future


Nomad Rover body


Nomad
Body:

 Single body with wheels mounted on two bogies.
4 wheel, skid steered.
Articulated wheel mounts allow width of wheel base to be adjusted.

Lunar-Analog
Traverse:

 Summer 1997
Site:Atacama Desert, Chile
Nomad under safeguarded teleop control
Month-long field trial,covering appx. 200 km

Beyond the
Desert:

 Search for Life: Hunt for meteors in Antarctica
Mobile work systems: Lunar telescope deployment

Lunar Rover Navigation 1996 - deano@ri.cmu.edu (last updated in Nov. 1996)
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