CRV - Cliffbot

Synopsis: The CRV cliffbot objective is to acquire data, starting by photo or video pictures on slopes between 30° and vertical where a crew member in space suit cannot operate safely.
Institution (PI): Alain Souchier, Association Planete Mars, FRANCE
Responsible on-site: Alain Souchier

Description

The CRV cliffbot objective is to acquire data, starting by photo or video pictures on slopes between 30° and vertical where a crew member in space suit cannot operate safely.
The experiment assumes that several slots of utilization by the crew will have been planned with vertical or near-vertical surfaces inside Dachstein caves to be visited by the crew with the Ancillary Scouting Cliffbot.
A camera or video camera is mounted on a mechanical structure with two large wheels that can be transported and manually operated by the crew. Its mass is around 4.2 kg. The structure is driven down along vertical walls, which implies that the operator has access to the upper part of the slope or cliff. One digital camera with on board self recording and one analogical camera are on board the vehicle. One or the other video is sent wireless real time to a TV monitor up the hill to help assess the vehicle situation. The sent video signal may be registered (system not yet provided with the experiment). The covered vertical distance has reached 20 meters in previous test campaigns in Utah/USA and in France.

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