LED mini-lidar for Mars rover

Tatsuo Shiina; Sonoko Yamada; Hiroki Senshu; Naohito Otobe; George Hashimoto; Yasuhiro Kawabata

doi:10.1117/12.2241976

LED mini-lidar for Mars rover

Tatsuo Shiina, Sonoko Yamada, Hiroki Senshu, Naohito Otobe, George Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Kawabata

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Abstract

A mini-lidar to observe the activity of Martian atmosphere is developed. The 10cm-cube LED mini-lidar was designed to be onboard a Mars rover. The light source of the mini-lidar is a high powered LED of 385nm. LED was adopted as light source because of its toughness against circumference change and physical shock for launch. The pulsed power and the pulse repetition frequency of LED beam were designed as 0.75W (=7.5nJ/10ns) and 500kHz, respectively. Lidar echoes were caught by the specially designed Cassegrain telescope, which has the shorter telescope tube than the usual to meet the 10cm-cube size limit. The high-speed photon counter was developed to pursue to the pulse repetition frequency of the LED light. The measurement range is no shorter than 30m depending back-ground condition. Its spatial resolution was improved as 0.15m (=1ns) by this photon counter. The demonstrative experiment was conducted at large wind tunnel facility of Japan Meteorological Agency. The measurement target was smoke of glycerin particles. The smoke was flowed in the wind tunnel with wind speed of 0 - 5m. Smoke diffusion and its propagation due to the wind flow were observed by the LED mini-lidar. This result suggests that the developed lidar can pursue the structure and the motion of dust devil of >2m.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII
Editors	Doina Nicoleta Nicolae, Upendra N. Singh
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510604162
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241976
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: Sept 26 2016 → Sept 27 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10006
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Other

Other	Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	9/26/16 → 9/27/16

Keywords

Dust
Flow
LED
Lidar
Mars

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Shiina, T., Yamada, S., Senshu, H., Otobe, N., Hashimoto, G., & Kawabata, Y. (2016). LED mini-lidar for Mars rover. In D. N. Nicolae, & U. N. Singh (Eds.), Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII Article 100060F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10006). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241976

LED mini-lidar for Mars rover. / Shiina, Tatsuo; Yamada, Sonoko; Senshu, Hiroki et al.
Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII. ed. / Doina Nicoleta Nicolae; Upendra N. Singh. SPIE, 2016. 100060F (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10006).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Shiina, T, Yamada, S, Senshu, H, Otobe, N, Hashimoto, G & Kawabata, Y 2016, LED mini-lidar for Mars rover. in DN Nicolae & UN Singh (eds), Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII., 100060F, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10006, SPIE, Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing XII, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 9/26/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241976

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