Small, light-weight rover "Micro5" for lunar exploration

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 52, Issue 2-6, 2003, Pages 447-453

  Kubota, Takashi ^a   Kuroda, Yoji ^b   Kunii, Yasuharu ^c   Nakatani, Ichiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROMANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

SURFACE EXPLORATIONS;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 0037237816     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00187-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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