Design and soft-landing control of a six-legged mobile repetitive lander for lunar exploration

Ke Yin,Feng Gao,Qiao Sun,Jimu Liu,Tao Xiao,Jianzhong Yang,Shuiqing Jiang,Xianbao Chen,Jing Sun,Renqiang Liu,Chenkun Qi,Ke Yin,Feng Gao,Qiao Sun,Jimu Liu,Tao Xiao,Jianzhong Yang,Shuiqing Jiang,Xianbao Chen,Jing Sun,Renqiang Liu,Chenkun Qi

The autonomous robots consisting of an immovable lander and a rover are widely deployed to explore extraterrestrial planets. However, these robots have two main limitations: (1) the separate design for lander and rover respectively results in heavy mass and big volume of the whole system, which increases the launching cost sharply; (2) the rover’s detection area has to be restricted to the vicinit...