Rovers with Foldable Structures and Foldable Wheels for Lunar Exploration | UEL
The Unmanned Exploration Laboratory (UEL) was founded in 2016 to develop multi-rotor drones, fixed-wing aircraft, and unmanned exploration vehicles. Since 2019, the company has focused on unmanned lunar exploration rover s. Furthermore, since 2020, it focused on constructing a rover to use lunar field resources through collaboration in lunar soil simulation development and application technologies. UEL is primarily developing the Rover system. In particular, they are working on rovers with folding frames and foldable wheels. UEL Rovers Developing rovers with foldable structures and foldable wheels for lunar exploration presents several potential advantages and innovations: Compact Transport: Foldable structures and wheels allow for more compact packaging during transportation to the Moon, whether within spacecraft or on rovers themselves. This reduces the size and weight constraints of the launch vehicle and maximizes the payload capacity for scientific instruments a...