MARS-DW

Martian dust wiper

Main researcher: L. Moreno

IMG_2023

Description

The objective of the project was to develop an extremely light wheight mechanism able to maintain free of dust the surface of a set of UV sensor to operate in Mars. The actuation mechanism is based in a SMA wire and the whole UV measurement equipment has a total weight below 100 grams.

The thermal operation conditions comes from -130 degrees to 30 degrees.

Entries:
A biologically inspired architecture for an autonomous and social robot
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. num. 3 , vol. 3 , pages: 232 – 246 , 2011
M. Malfaz A. Castro-Gonzalez R. Barber M.A. Salichs

Entries:
The Industrial Electronics Handbook. Control and Mechatronics
chapter: 39. Mobile Robots pages: 1 – 13. CRC Press , ISBN: 978-1-4398-0287, 2011
M. Malfaz R. Barber M.A. Salichs

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