Soft-landing control for a six-legged mobile repetitive lander

The primary mode of extraterrestrial exploration is a robotic system comprising a lander and a rover.However,the lander is immovable,and the rover has a restrictive detection area because of the difficulties of reaching complex terrains,such as those with deep craters.In this study,a six-legged mobile repetitive lander with landing and walking functions is designed to solve these problems.First,a six-legged mobile repetitive lander and its structure are introduced.Then,a soft-landing method based on compliance control and optimal force control is addressed to control the landing process.Finally,the experiments are conducted to validate the soft-landing method and its performances.Results show that the soft-landing method for the six-legged mobile repetitive lander can successfully control the joint torques and solve the soft-landing problem on complex terrains,such as those with steps and slopes.