CHASSIS DESIGN & PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR THE EUROPEAN EXOMARS ROVER

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-517
Author(s):  
Alex Ellery ◽  
Lutz Richter ◽  
Reinhold Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Weight Distribution ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Scientific Instrument ◽  
Equal Weight ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Design Issues ◽  
Martian Surface ◽  
Considerable Size

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars rover has recently been subject to a Phase A study led by EADS Astrium, UK. This rover mission represents a highly ambitious venture in that the rover is of considerable size ~200+kg with high mobility carrying a highly complex scientific instrument suite (Pasteur) of up to 40 kg in mass devoted to exobiological investigation of the Martian surface and sub-surface. The chassis design has been a particular challenge given the inhospitable terrain on Mars and the need to traverse such terrain robustly in order to deliver the scientific instruments to science targets of exobiological interest, We present some of the results and design issues encountered during the Phase A study related to the chassis. In particular, we have focussed on the overall tractive performance of a number of candidate chassis designs and selected the RCL (Science & Technology Rover Company Ltd in Russian) concept C design as the baseline option in terms of high performance with minimal mechanical complexity overhead. This design is a six-wheeled double-rocker bogie design to provide springless suspension and maintain approximately equal weight distribution across each wheel.

scholarly journals Ab initio perspective of ultra-scaled CMOS from 2D-material fundamentals to dynamically doped transistors

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryan Afzalian
Keyword(s):  
Field Effect ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Field Effect Transistor ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor ◽  
Oxide Semiconductor ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Gate Length ◽  
Delay Performance ◽  
Effect Transistor

AbstractUsing accurate dissipative DFT-NEGF atomistic-simulation techniques within the Wannier-Function formalism, we give a fresh look at the possibility of sub-10-nm scaling for high-performance complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) applications. We show that a combination of good electrostatic control together with high mobility is paramount to meet the stringent roadmap targets. Such requirements typically play against each other at sub-10-nm gate length for MOS transistors made of conventional semiconductor materials like Si, Ge, or III–V and dimensional scaling is expected to end ~12 nm gate-length (pitch of 40 nm). We demonstrate that using alternative 2D channel materials, such as the less-explored HfS2 or ZrS2, high-drive current down to ~6 nm is, however, achievable. We also propose a dynamically doped field-effect transistor concept, that scales better than its MOSFET counterpart. Used in combination with a high-mobility material such as HfS2, it allows for keeping the stringent high-performance CMOS on current and competitive energy-delay performance, when scaling down to virtually 0 nm gate length using a single-gate architecture and an ultra-compact design (pitch of 22 nm). The dynamically doped field-effect transistor further addresses the grand-challenge of doping in ultra-scaled devices and 2D materials in particular.

Quaternisation-polymerized N-type polyelectrolytes: synthesis, characterisation and application in high-performance polymer solar cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhicheng Hu ◽  
Rongguo Xu ◽  
Sheng Dong ◽  
Kai Lin ◽  
Jinju Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Polymer Solar Cells ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
High Performance Polymer

We design and synthesize a series of high-mobility n-type polyelectrolytes with different anions via quaternisation polymerisation, which can be utilized as thickness-insensitive electron-transporting materials for polymer solar cells.

What is a scientific instrument, now?

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liba Taub
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Scientific Instrument ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Classic Article ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Abstract In 1990, Deborah Jean Warner, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution, published her now-classic article ‘What is a scientific instrument, when did it become one, and why?’. These questions were prompted by practical curatorial considerations: what was she supposed to collect for her museum? Today, we are still considering questions of what we collect for the future, why, and how. These questions have elicited some new and perhaps surprising answers since the publication of Warner’s article, sometimes – but not only – as a reflection of changing technologies and laboratory practices, and also as a result of changes in those disciplines that study science, including history of science and philosophy of science. In focusing attention on meanings associated with scientific instrument collections, and thinking about what objects are identified as scientific instruments, I consider how definitions of instruments influence what is collected and preserved.

scholarly journals Orthogonal Time Sequency Multiplexing Modulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tharaj Thaj ◽  
Emanuele Viterbo
Keyword(s):  
Time Domain ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Modulation Scheme ◽  
Frequency Space ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Single Carrier ◽  
The Time Domain

This paper proposes <i>orthogonal time sequency multiplexing</i> (OTSM), a novel single carrier modulation scheme based on the well known Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) combined with row-column interleaving, and zero padding (ZP) between blocks in the time-domain. The information symbols in OTSM are multiplexed in the delay and sequency domain using a cascade of time-division and Walsh-Hadamard (sequency) multiplexing. By using the WHT for transmission and reception, the modulation and demodulation steps do not require any complex multiplications. We then propose two low-complexity detectors: (i) a simpler non-iterative detector based on a single tap minimum mean square time-frequency domain equalizer and (ii) an iterative time-domain detector. We demonstrate, via numerical simulations, that the proposed modulation scheme offers high performance gains over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and exhibits the same performance of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, but with lower complexity. In proposing OTSM, along with simple detection schemes, we offer the lowest complexity solution to achieving reliable communication in high mobility wireless channels, as compared to the available schemes published so far in the literature.

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