Abstract
Vehicles for space exploration have to operate in environments, completely different from Earth. Thus design and test of spacecrafts have to rely crucially on computer aided engineering approaches to simulate on Earth these foreign planetary. environments for the design of mechatronic components and operations. At the example of the Mobile Instrument Deployment Device (MIDD), a small rover for planetary surface exploration, this paper presents the simulation methods to derive the mechanical and dynamical properties of the locomotion system, to develop and to test the concept for vehicle operations at significant signal propagation delays. The CAE design methods, the simulation results and the hardware performance are addressed.
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