BEIJING, May 12 -- A key project of China's Natural
Science Funds, "Research of fundamental theory and key technology for modeling,
sensoring, navigation and control of the lunar probe system" was inaugurated in
Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on
Wednesday.
The project was ratified in Dec 2005, and will be
undertaken by Institute of Intelligent Machines, CAS, Harbin Institute of
Technology and Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS.
Aiming to develop the positioning and navigation
system for the lunar probe, the project sets forth the computation of the
control of soft landing of the lunar explorer, positioning and navigation system
based on electronic, light and force sensors and wireless sensor network
technology, and two-level control strategy comprising remote control and
regional self-control. In addition, an experiment base made up of numeric model,
multimedia simulation, experimental ground and simulated lunar surface, will
give full support to the moon probe project.
The project, headed by Institute of Intelligent
Machines, CAS, is to be completed in four years.
(Source: People's Daily Online)
