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IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
卷 7, 期 4, 页码 12062-12069出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3211153
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Bevameter; robot mobility; soft terrain; terramechanics; traversability analysis
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- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality [ZDSYS20200811143601004]
Robot mobility is crucial for mission success, especially in soft or deformable terrains. This letter proposes an on-board mobility prediction approach using an articulated wheeled bevameter, which can measure and predict the slip and sinkage of the rover's wheels in real-time, allowing for the selection of a proper path to avoid hazardous regions.
Robot mobility is critical for mission success, especially in soft or deformable terrains, where the complex wheel-soil interaction mechanics often leads to excessive wheel slip and sinkage, causing the eventual mission failure. To improve the rover performance, online mobility prediction using vision, infrared imaging, or model-based stochastic methods have been used in the literature. This letter proposes an on-board mobility prediction approach using an articulated wheeled bevameter that consists of a force-controlled arm and an instrumented bevameter (with force and vision sensors) as its end-effector. The proposed bevameter, which emulates the traditional terramechanics tests such as pressure-sinkage and shear experiments, can measure the contact parameters ahead of the rover's body in real-time, and predict the slip and sinkage of the subsequent supporting wheels over the probed region. Based on the mobility prediction, the rover can select a proper path in order to avoid hazardous regions such as those covered with loose sand. Compared to the literature, our proposed method can avoid the complicated yet inaccurate vehicle-terrain interaction modeling and time-consuming stochastic prediction; it can also mitigate the inaccuracy issues arising in non-contact vision-based methods. We also conduct multiple experiments to validate the proposed approach and the applicability of the articulated bevameter as an on-board equipment to study wheel-terrain interaction mechanics.
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