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| Team 06-0157 |
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Seth Reeder
Arleen Thukral |
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| Introduction |
| Throughout history humankind has always wondered about
the depths of space. From that first fateful moment when
Galileo first hypothesized about the true nature of space
and the universe to today there have been many advances in
space exploration... sputnik... man in orbit... man on
moon.... etc. Despite all these huge advances we have made
there is still a huge amount we have not done and not
explored. Since that fateful day when Apollo 11 touched down
and we heard the first words ever spoken from the moon there
has been little further exploration of the earth's only
known natural satellite. In the research project documented
on this website we have designed a lunar exploration robot
to explore the Aiken basin of the moon in search of water
ice. The Aiken basin is a large crater located on the
southern pole of the moon which many scientists suspect may
contain frozen water brought by the large comet that we
suspect formed the crater. |
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| Team Work |
| In January, a small group from the Lockheed Martin
Explorer Post rocket team got together and started to work
on the Botball research project. We created an outline and
started to elaborate on the ideas. While we didn't really
finish this project, we did develop some techniques to
conduct discussions online.
We hope to use it during the Botball robot development
activity. An additional web page contains the log of our
online discussion. We also created a good
bibliography for the
project, which is in a separate additional page. |
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| Outline |
Design challenges and conditions
- conditions on moon
- ideas of how to overcome problems
- final solution we choose
Comparison to similar missions
- compare conditions and design challenges to Mars and
MER robots
Basic design of robot
- a basic diagram (preferably cad)
- an explanation
Locomotion
- elaboration on locomotion system
Control and navigation systems
- elaboration on nav control
Power supply
- radioisotope thermoelectric generator
- solar panel
- docking station idea
Sensors
- elaboration on sensor tech
- how it'll find water
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