The use of resources in foreign environments is essential to the success of manned missions to Mars. This project explores the different ways a rover can mine and deliver resources in a simulated Martian environment. This robot is capable of autonomously excavating the simulated ice chunks 30 cm (11 in) below the surface and driving to a collection station to unload the material it has collected. This project was inspired by the NASA Robotic Mining Competition which established a set of rules for how the robot was to be constructed.

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Creator

• Khan, Rayyan Ahmed
• Castelino, Nikhil Mario
• Kumar, Kushagra
• Patias, Parmenion
• Hagen, Thomas

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042518-215148

Advisor

• Stafford, Kenneth A.
• Ciaraldi, Michael J.

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright