Multi-state autonomous drilling for lunar exploration

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• 作者：Chongbin Chen ^{chongbin831@hotmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Qiquan Quan ; ^{quanqiquan@hit.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Xiaomeng Shi ^{vsimon@sohu.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Zongquan DengAuthor Vitae ; Dewei TangAuthor Vitae ; Shengyuan JiangAuthor Vitae
• 关键词：Finite state machine ; Recognition algorithm ; Simulants ; Support vector machine ; Wavelet transform
• 刊名：Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：29
• 期：5
• 页码：1397-1404
• 全文大小：1762 K

文摘

Due to the lack of information of subsurface lunar regolith stratification which varies along depth, the drilling device may encounter lunar soil and lunar rock randomly in the drilling process. To meet the load safety requirements of unmanned sampling mission under limited orbital resources, the control strategy of autonomous drilling should adapt to the indeterminable lunar environments. Based on the analysis of two types of typical drilling media (i.e., lunar soil and lunar rock), this paper proposes a multi-state control strategy for autonomous lunar drilling. To represent the working circumstances in the lunar subsurface and reduce the complexity of the control algorithm, lunar drilling process was categorized into three drilling states: the interface detection, initiation of drilling parameters for recognition and drilling medium recognition. Support vector machine (SVM) and continuous wavelet transform were employed for the online recognition of drilling media and interface, respectively. Finite state machine was utilized to control the transition among different drilling states. To verify the effectiveness of the multi-state control strategy, drilling experiments were implemented with multi-layered drilling media constructed by lunar soil simulant and lunar rock simulant. The results reveal that the multi-state control method is capable of detecting drilling state variation and adjusting drilling parameters timely under vibration interferences. The multi-state control method provides a feasible reference for the control of extraterrestrial autonomous drilling.