Research On Intelligent Floating Mars Explorer With Distributed Networked Technology

摘要

Mars has been one of the hottest planets for exploring in future. Until now, human have launched hundreds of planet explorers, while most of them were unable to implement their mission successfully. The landers mostly were stationary or only able to move a limited distance on land. Nearly all of the previous equipments were sent to finish their tasks independently, which implied high cost, more complex and therefore high failure risks. As the skyrocketing development of Big Data, artificial intelligence, network communication and robotic technologies, it would be more realistic to explore the out-space planets, such as Mars, by using distributed intelligent robots to do exploring task jointly. Therefore, a new type of Mars exploring robot system is provided in this paper. The system is comprised by one floating mother ship and numerous little functional robotic implementation units. The mother ship. floating in the rare air. has the ability to take enough payloads and move long distance. It can give commands to the little units and release or collect them easily. Each little unit is an independent robot, which can realize a simple task, such as exploring, repairing, energy-supplying, information transferring and so on. The system should be opened, expandable and modularized in order to simplify the complexity and release risk, which means it can be improved and perfected structurally and functionally by later launch missions. After this, it would be able to implement exploring missions much more organized, efficiently, continuously and reliably. According to the obvious deficiency and urgent demands, this paper gives an overview of Mars exploration development by the description of the framework of the intelligent floating Mars exploration system, and reveals the technical solutions and using strategies. Mechanical structure models were established to reveal the system more clearly.