Title :
IPSE: Italian package for scientific experiments
Author :
Espinasse, Sylvie ; Flamini, E. ; Angrilli, Francesco ; Debei, Stefano ; De Marchi, Eliana ; Ferrario, Roberto ; Terribile, Antonio ; Coradini, Angioletta ; Capaccioni, Fabrizio ; Lellis, Andrea Di ; Magni, Gianfranco ; Bianchi, Remo ; Colangeli, Luigi ;
Author_Institution :
ASI, Roma, Italy
Abstract :
IPSE is a scientific autonomous micro-laboratory for Mars soil and environment analysis. It is designed to provide the capability to serve, handle and manage scientific miniaturised instruments accommodated inside its envelope. These instruments will carry out measurements on soil samples, atmosphere, radiation environment and dust flux. IPSE is an example of a small and flexible laboratory, that can be integrated on different landers and rovers. It contains: scientific instruments; a small robotic arm to provide samples to the instruments; power conditioning; electronics for system and thermal control, communications and instrument data handling.
Keywords :
Mars; aerospace robotics; atmospheric measuring apparatus; dust; planetary atmospheres; planetary rovers; planetary surfaces; radiation detection; soil; space research; space vehicle electronics; IPSE envelope size; Mars landers; Mars scientific experiments; Mars soil/environment analysis; atmosphere measurements; communications/instrument data handling electronics; dust flux measurements; planetary rovers; power conditioning; radiation environment measurements; robotic arms; scientific autonomous micro-laboratories; scientific miniaturised instruments; small/flexible laboratories; soil sample measurements; system/thermal control electronics; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Communication system control; Instruments; Laboratories; Mars; Packaging; Power conditioning; Robots; Soil measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7231-X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2002.1036855
