一个Hansel & Gretel面包式的动态部署的通信网络范式,使用网状拓来进行行星地下探索
Wolfgang Fink1, Connor Fuhrman1, Andres Nuncio Zuniga1
1Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|August 7, 2023
概括
我们开发了一个动态部署的通信网络 (DDCN),用于机器人探索地下环境. 该系统使用无线信标来进行强大的通信,使洞穴和海洋的深度和更广泛的探索成为可能.
科学领域:
- 机器人技术和自主系统
- 星球科学和天体生物学
- 通信网络 通信网络
背景情况:
- 其他星球上的岩管和海洋等地表环境是天体生物学和未来人类探索的关键目标.
- 目前的通信局限性阻碍了机器人深入探索这些具有挑战性的环境.
- 美国宇航局的"全方位移动"挑战需要先进的解决方案来实现不受限制的地下接入.
研究的目的:
- 引入一种新的动态部署通信网络 (DDCN) 范式,用于自主机器人探索地下环境.
- 为了使地下和地表机器人代理之间的强大和扩展的通信链接.
- 支持天体生物学研究和在地外地下环境中潜在的人类息地探索.
主要方法:
- 使用网状拓学的动态部署通信网络 (DDCN) 的开发.
- 无线通信信标的自主部署由漫游者或潜水器在"面包"风格.
- 创建一个带有有线/无线通信信标的机器人测试台,用于场景验证.
主要成果:
- DDCN为在岩管和海洋等地下环境中的机器人代理提供了强大的和扩展的通信链路.
- 该系统为地下机器人探测器的数据传输和潜在的指令接收提供了便利.
- 这种方法直接解决了NASA太空技术大挑战中的移动性和通信挑战.
结论:
- 在地下机器人探索中,DDCN范式为克服通信障碍提供了可行的解决方案.
- 这项技术增强了发现外星生命和建立人类息地的潜力.
- 开发的系统支持对具有挑战性的环境进行不受约束的探索,推进行星科学和天体生物学.
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