为漫游者车辆的一个压电的开车方法在这份报纸被建议。采用这个方法,磨擦力量从与压电的元素装的一个框架驾驶的追踪的车辆被开发。车辆这样没有司机链轮齿,没有闲散车轮、不支持的载重车车轮,和车辆被设计不要求润滑油并且在行星的探索有潜在的申请。框架由一双压电的变换器组成。每个变换器包括横梁连接的四环形的部分与压电的陶艺粘住。轨道借助于轨道紧张被设为环形的部分的外部表面。旅行旋转波浪被压电的变换器在环形的部分产生,它在磁道的接口产生显微镜的椭圆的运动。从压电的变换器的显微镜的椭圆的运动驱使轨道车辆移动。有限元素分析被执行用商业软件 ANSYS 验证操作原则。压电的变换器被制作,装配并且测试了验证建议漫游者车辆的概念并且证实模拟结果。有 0.57 kg 的质量的原型车辆在 250 V 和 65.53 kHz 的操作频率的开车电压以 4.3 mm/s 的速度移动。
A piezoelectric driving method for rover vehicles is proposed in this paper. Employing this method, a tracked vehicle driven by friction forces from a frame mounted with piezoelectric elements was developed. The vehicle is designed with no driver sprocket, no idler-wheel and no supporting bogie wheels, and the vehicle thus requires no lubrication and has potential application in plan- etary exploration. The frame consists of a pair of piezoelectric transducers. Each transducer comprises four annular parts jointed by beams adhered with piezoelectric ceramics. The tracks are set to the outer surface of the annular parts by means of track ten- sion. Traveling rotating waves are generated by piezoelectric transducers in the annular parts, which generate microscopic ellipti- cal motions at the interface of the tracks. The microscopic elliptical motions from the piezoelectric transducers drive the track vehicle to move. Finite elements analysis was carried out to verify the operation principle using commercial software ANSYS. Piezoelectric transducers were fabricated, assembled and tested to validate the concepts of the proposed rover vehicle and confirm the simulation results. A prototype vehicle with mass of 0.57 kg moves at a speed of 4.3 mm/s at a driving voltage of 250 V and operating frequency of 65.53 kHz.