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ROBOCRANE

Lunar Rover

NIST RoboCrane mobile 2 m prototype
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This full-scale (2 m frame member length) prototype was driven using six independently-controlled tracks (i.e., three tracked vehicles). It was mobile, flexibly-configured, rigid-legged and battery powered. The on-board computer was an SBC-32 based system that allowed remote RF control of the roverŐs mobility, Stewart-platform and attached tool. The prototype was demonstrated at the National Air and Space Museum Lunar Rover Exhibition in Washington, D.C. in 1992.

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Last updated: March 19, 2001