Abstract

Abstract The task of unmanned automated sampling of China’s lunar exploration is to bring back lunar soil samples with a certain depth, and sampling of external auger drill pipe is the best way. The power and moment size of the lunar surface is limited, so a special design is required. In this paper, a unique structural model of a double-auger drilling tool is designed. It is a movement analysis of lunar soil and drill pipe. We use simulated lunar soil simulations and experiments. The Hertz-Mindlin slip-free model in the discrete element software EDEM was used for numerical simulation. Given the disadvantage of the large amount of computation of discrete elements, the “embedding simulation method” proposed in this paper reduces the amount of computation. When drilling 0.4m and 1m under lunar and earth gravity, the magnitude and influence of drill pipe rotation and vertical velocity on the drag moment were analyzed. We provide the relevant technical parameters of the real unmanned drilling activities on the lunar surface. Through simulation, the rationality parameters of several groups of drill pipe drilling are obtained to ensure the smooth progress of drilling.

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