Space 2006 2006
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-7337
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Abstract: This paper describes a preliminary concept for mobile habitats that help illustrate possible uses for the modular robotic Trigon construction system. Modular mobile habitats have been shown to possess the potential to satisfy multiple requirements for initial planetary surface base construction and surface rover mobility. The Habot / Mobitat-style mobile habitats would be mass-produced and operate on the planet surface in groups and clusters to form re-locatable / reconfigurable habitats and bases. However as … Show more

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“…Establishing a robust modular robotic construction system will build tremendous flexibility into orbital and planetary surface infrastructure. The Trigon robotic pairs can act as independent agents in a coordinated selfassembly of habitats and vehicles (Howe 2002, andGibson 2006a). Figure 15 shows design studies for wheeled vehicles using the Trigon system.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Establishing a robust modular robotic construction system will build tremendous flexibility into orbital and planetary surface infrastructure. The Trigon robotic pairs can act as independent agents in a coordinated selfassembly of habitats and vehicles (Howe 2002, andGibson 2006a). Figure 15 shows design studies for wheeled vehicles using the Trigon system.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These lunar-deployable structures are constructed on Earth and fully commissioned to allow automatic or semiautomatic assembly and deployment when rocketed to the lunar surface. The inflated-torus concept (Howe & Sherwood, 2009) and the transformable robotic infrastructure-generating object network (TRIGON) (Howe & Gibson, 2006) The third phase uses a construction technology that utilizes lunar in situ resources as the primary building material. Through resource mining and processing, the lunar regolith is converted into additive manufacturing (AM) raw materials.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A very motivational but currently unrealistic concept by Kraft Ehricke proposes a fully sustainable city for thousands of people called "Selenopolis" 1 . There are of course more "modest" concepts, such as the modular elevated bunker Lunar Base of Jan Kaplicky and David Nixon; mobile bases such as "Habot" 2 , "Mobitat" 3 , the Inflated-Torus Concept by Larry Toups and Chris Kennedy 4 , the modular Human Lunar Surface Base 5 , the SICSA lunar base concepts 6,7 and other lunar concepts 8,9,10,11 . So far, all these concepts have remained feasibility studies and research proposals only.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%