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Lab Calendar2010 - 2011 NASA Lunabotics Competition Team
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 Figure 1. Intended Operation of Platform |
In May of 2010, NASA held the first annual Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center. The competition was designed to engage and retain undergraduate and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects in a competitive environment while also eliciting innovative ideas for lunar regolith excavation. Recently, NASA discovered that lunar regolith, or top soil, has solid water, or ice, in it. This discovery has shown that it would be feasible to build a lunar base in the near future. Other than water, lunar regolith can be used for construction material, shielding from radiation and micro-meteorites, blast burms for landing craft, and possibly even raw materials such as rocket fuel constituents. In the future of lunar exploration and colonization, regolith has an important role to play as well as the excavation of regolith. |
The ARTEMIS Project, using a Systems
Engineering methodology, conceived and designed a robotic
platform capable of excavating 10 kg
of lunar regolith within 15 minutes. The design incorporated
tracks, a conveyor paddle belt excavator, a bucket for regolith storage, and
various components for control.
The ARTEMIS Project was funded and sponsored by the National Space Grant, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, the STRIDe Lab, Kiel, and EMT Robotics.
2009-2010 NASA Lunabotics Senior Design Team |
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| James Dickson Mechanical Engineering |
Christopher Loftis Computer & Electrical Engineering |
| Jennifer Schrage Mechanical Engineering |
Nick Stroupe Electrical Engineering |
| Jeremy Nagorka Mechanical Engineering |
Anthony Gantt Electrical Engineering |
| Lindsey A. Williams Mechanical Engineering |
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Videos
 ARTEMIS Platform Locomotion |
 ARTEMIS Platform Overview |
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Final Design Presentation for the ARTEMIS Project Robotic
Platform |