ENAE 788X
Planetary Surface Robotics
Fall, 2018

  Space Systems Laboratory - Department of Aerospace Engineering - University of Maryland

 

#01 - Monday, Aug. 27 – Course Introduction [PDF]

#02 - Wednesday, Aug. 29 – Free Space and Airless Body Mobility [PDF]

#03 - Wednesday, Sept. 5 – Atmospheric Flight [PDF]

#04 - Monday, Sept. 10 – Terramechanics 1 [PDF]

#05 - Wednesday, Sept. 12 – Terramechanics 2 [PDF]

#06 - Monday, Sept. 24 – Steering and Suspensions [PDF]

#07 - Wednesday, Sept. 26 – Slopes and Static Stability [PDF]

#08 - Monday, Oct. 1 – Term Project Details [PDF] and Grousers [PDF]

#09 - Wednesday, Oct 3 – Lunar Roving Vehicle Case Study [PDF]

#10 - Monday, Oct. 8 – Static and Quasistatic Stability

#11 - Wednesday, Oct. 10 – Turning on Slopes

#12 - Monday, Oct. 15 - Wheel Climbing over Obstacles

#13 - Wednesday, Oct. 17 – Case Studies: MER/MSL [PDF]

#14 - Monday, Oct. 22 – Suspension Dynamics

#15 - Wednesday, Oct. 24 –Wheel-Soil Interactions in Turns

#16 - Wednesday, Oct. 31 – Mobile Robot Kinematics

#17 - Wednesday, Nov. 7 – Case Study: Resource Prospector [PDF]

#18 - Monday, Nov. 12 – Tracked Vehicles

#19 - Wednesday, Nov. 14 – Legged Locomotion [PDF]

#20 - Monday, Nov. 19 – Robot Actuators[PDF]

#21 - Monday, Nov. 26 – Robot Sensors [PDF] (now with details of the term project!)

#22 - Wednesday, Nov. 28 – TBD [PDF]

#23 - Monday, Dec. 3 – TBD [PDF]

#24 - Wednesday, Dec. 5 – TBD [PDF]

#25 - Monday, Dec. 10 – TBD [PDF]