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Jinsheng Cui, Baoxian Chen, Sibo Liu, Deming Zhao and Weiwei Zhang
Water ice is an important water source in lunar polar soil. Drilling and sampling lunar polar soil are important engineering tasks of lunar exploration. In view of the influence of temperature rise on the quality of samples obtained by drilling, the heat...
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Toshiki Tanaka, Takuji Ebinuma, Shinichi Nakasuka and Heidar Malki
In this study, dual-satellite lunar global navigation systems that consist of a constellation of two navigation satellites providing geo-spatial positioning on the lunar surface were compared. In our previous work, we proposed a new dual-satellite relati...
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Deepak Dhingra
Volatile-bearing lunar surface and interior, giant magmatic-intrusion-laden near and far side, globally distributed layer of purest anorthosite (PAN) and discovery of Mg-Spinel anorthosite, a new rock type, represent just a sample of the brand new perspe...
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Zihao Yuan, Ruinan Mu, Haifeng Zhao and Ke Wang
In this work, a dynamic model is proposed to simulate the drilling and steering process of an autonomous burrowing mole to access scientific samples from the deep subsurface of the Moon. The locomotive module is idealized as a rigid rod. The characterist...
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Hong Gan, Chengxuan Zhao, Guangfei Wei, Xiongyao Li, Guojun Xia, Xiao Zhang and Jingjing Shi
The lunar polar regions are key areas for future exploration due to the long-term continuous illumination and persistently shadowed regions that can cold trap abundant water and other volatiles. However, the complex terrain, dynamic lighting, and solar w...
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Lizhou Cao, Chao Peng and Jeffrey T. Hansberger
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have opened new possibilities for creating engaging educational games. This paper presents a serious VR game that immerses players into the activities of lunar exploration missions in a virtual environment. We designed a...
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Tatsuaki Okada
Activities in lunar, planetary, and asteroid science and exploration.
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Mitra Khalilidermani and Dariusz Knez
In the past two decades, various space agencies have shown great enthusiasm for constructing habitable structures on lunar and Martian surfaces. Consequently, several extraterrestrial structures have been proposed by different researchers. Nevertheless, ...
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Ziheng Liu, Huaiyu He, Jiannan Li, Jialong Hao, Junyue Tang, Zhiheng Zhang, Shengyuan Jiang, Guanxin Chi, Ranran Liu, Lei Wang, Hao Geng and Changbin Xue
According to the big impact hypothesis, the moon should be very dry. However, more and more evidence from the remote sensing of the moon in recent years indicates that there is a lot of water in the moon?s polar regions. Researching the source and distri...
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Zheng Gong, Nicholas Barnett, Jangguen Lee, Hyunwoo Jin, Byunghyun Ryu, Taeyoung Ko, Joung Oh, Andrew Dempster and Serkan Saydam
Water resources are essential to human exploration in deep space or the establishment of long-term lunar habitation. Ice discovered on the Moon may be useful in future missions to the lunar surface, necessitating the consideration of in situ resource uti...
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Jinsheng Cui, Le Kui, Weiwei Zhang, Deming Zhao and Jiaqing Chang
As the frozen soil in the South Pole region of the Moon is an important water resource, the operation of drilling and retrieving samples of the frozen soil in this region will be a crucial task for us to accomplish in future deep-space exploration. Thus,...
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Ruijun Hu and Yulin Zhang
The global path planning of planetary surface rovers is crucial for optimizing exploration benefits and system safety. For the cases of long-range roving or obstacle constraints that are time-varied, there is an urgent need to improve the computational e...
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Gang Chen, Hong You, Zeyuan Huang, Junting Fei, Yifan Wang and Chuankai Liu
This paper presents an efficient path planning method for the lunar rover to improve the autonomy and exploration ability in the complex and unstructured lunar surface environment. Firstly, the safe zone for the rover?s motion is defined, based on which ...
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Weiyan Ren, Dapeng Han and Zhaokui Wang
When a lunar assisted robot helps an astronaut turn over or transports the astronaut from the ground, the trajectory of the robot?s dual arms should be automatically planned according to the unstructured environment on the lunar surface. In this paper, a...
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Vera Assis Fernandes
The forward planning of the return of Humans to the lunar surface as envisioned by different national and collaborative space agencies requires consideration of the fragility and pristine nature of the lunar surface. Current international treaties are ou...
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Jasmine Rimani, Giordana Bucchioni, Andrea Dan Ryals, Nicole Viola and Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez
The lunar lava tubes are envisioned as possible hosting structures for a human base in the Moon?s equatorial regions, providing shelter from radiations, micrometeoroids, and temperature excursion. A first robotic mission is set to scout the habitability ...
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Naser T. Burahmah and Lawrence H. Heilbronn
As humanity prepares for extended lunar exploration, understanding the radiation environment on the Moon is important for astronaut safety. This study utilized the Particle and Heavy-Ion Transport code System (PHITS), a stochastic Monte Carlo-based radia...
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Xu Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Mingzhong Gao, Yufeng Wen and Yaohui Wang
The Moon is the closest extraterrestrial celestial body to the Earth. Sampling and analysis of lunar regolith or rocks can pave the way for the development and utilization of lunar resources. The acquisition of lunar regolith samples with original strati...
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Yang Liu, Xintong Li, Pengcheng Wang, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Zhu and Guobiao Cai
This paper proposed a multi-objective, multi-disciplinary design optimization and multi-attribute evaluation method for the manned lunar lander descent stage. A system design model is established considering multiple disciplines such as propulsion, struc...
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Beom-Joon Park and Hyun-Joon Chung
The growing trend of onboard computational autonomy has increased the need for self-reliant rovers (SRRs) with high efficiency for unmanned rover activities. Mobility is directly associated with a successful execution mission, thus fault response for act...
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