Analog Mars Rover Service as a Robotic Hardware and Team Building Platform

Meszyński, Sebastian; Józefowicz, Mateusz

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13853-4_13

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“…For example, the "aquanauts" at NASA's underwater base "NEEMO" learn how to conduct experiments and perform in a "low-gravity" environment [15]. NEEMO analogue vision contrast from that of the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), which focuses on biological and geological studies, but also serves as a testbed for technological demonstrations including the "University Rover Challenge" [10,16,17]. This challenge looks to improve rover capabilities and tests their potential in performing teleoperated or autonomous tasks that may assist future astronauts in their work.…”

Section: Analogue Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, a mission in which the participants are confined within their habitat dictates the usefulness of the testing that can be completed; there would also be vast differences in the technology applicable to a mission on a glacier, and a mission in the desert. Some examples of the types of technology demonstrated from current analogue missions, such as AMADEE, MDRS, DMARS, and NEEMO [10,15,16,17,19,25], include:…”

Section: Analogue Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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UK Analogue Mission Research: The Case for STEAM Education and Outreach

Owens¹,

Kaplan²,

Chterev³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities

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With little access to practical opportunities within the space industry for UK students, we have founded the UK Analogue Mission (UKAM) to provide motivated students with the platform to develop their skills and knowledge for their future careers. We believe that by utilizing our network and expertise, we can use UK-led space analogue missions to connect students from various disciplines and elevate the potential of the next generation of students.There is a rise in popularity and demand for analogue missions across the globe. Organizations in Austria and Israel [1][2] are using these initiatives to raise human spaceflight awareness to the public, as well as providing opportunities for students involving habitat design, experiments, and mission planning. Our goal is to increase the UK's human spaceflight capabilities and collaborate on the global stage with our own British astronauts. The strength of this was demonstrated by Tim Peake and his Principia mission which invited hundreds of students to the Science Museum in London and spurred a new wave of interest into UK spaceflight activities. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) Space Environments and Human Spaceflight Strategy [3] was further evidence of this, where David Parker argued that the UK should be "exploiting the unique opportunities for growth which human spaceflight and associated research programs can offer". Analogue missions provide a valuable niche and enrich the desire to go to space. Setting aside the importance this platform has for students, analogue missions simultaneously benefits technology demonstrations to raise Technology Readiness Level (TLR) in preparation for future space exploration. Exposing students to these demonstrations is a great way to stimulate inspiration to develop current and future innovations for the advancement of the space industry.With this ever-evolving industry and the rapid acceleration of innovation and technology, analogue missions provide a rich platform for students, young professionals, and organizations to come together for unique collaboration opportunities. Utilizing resources and expertise across all disciplines, we will elevate the UK space industry onto the international playing field.

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Section: Analogue Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analogue Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK Analogue Mission Research: The Case for STEAM Education and Outreach

Owens¹,

Kaplan²,

Chterev³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities

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“…At the very outset of University Rover Challenge 2014, as a part of preparation, we have studied the experience of York University Rover Team of 2008-09 [8] and Magma team [9]. YURT proposed a general trend toward design modularity, purpose-driven customizations and better critical thinking in the design process.…”

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Mongol Barota: A next generation rover

Shafin¹,

Kabir²,

Ridwan³

et al. 2014

The 8th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2014)

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.Abstract-This paper scrutinizes Mongol Barota -a fully functional, stand-alone mobile platform rover which is capable to act as a human assistant to perform various scientific tasks in extreme adversities. The control system of the rover is designed in such a way that it can be commanded from a blind station within 1 kilometer range. It has successfully taken part in 8 th annual University Rover Challenge organized by the Mars Society at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the remote, barren desert of southern Utah, USA in late May, 2014. It has been traced out as the first entrance in this competition from Bangladesh and occupied 12 th position out of 31 registered teams from 6 countries of 4 continents. The rover architecture maps the associated components to make it capable to perform the assigned tasks namely -Sample Return Task, Astronaut Assistance Task, Equipment Servicing Task and Terrain Traversing Task. Among these, the first task refers to search for the evidence to identify the existence of life after detailed analysis of collected soil sample from a selected site. In Equipment servicing task, rover has to perform a sequence of operations that mainly includes switching on a compressor and working with a series of pipes, hoses, valves and other such equipment. Astronaut assistance task intends the rover to collect tools from some given GPS locations and then delivery of each of them to the corresponding locations with provided GPS coordinates. Rover has to traverse an adverse terrain in order to pass through a set of target gates for completion of the terrain traversing task. This paper provides a detailed demonstration of the Mongol Barota rover, ins and outs of its architecture, facts and features, system components, logic, logistics and techniques adopted to implement several tasks representing its overall capabilities.

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