university rover challenge: making a simulation mars rover
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University Rover Challenge: Making a Simulation Mars Rover. Can you find earth in this picture?. Outline. MDRS & BYU Discussion of event at past & future competitions Past BYU Rovers for URC The astrobiology task. Endoliths. Optional History of Rovers on Mars - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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University Rover Challenge: Making a Simulation Mars Rover
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Can you find earth in this picture?
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Outline• MDRS & BYU• Discussion of event at past & future
competitions• Past BYU Rovers for URC• The astrobiology task.
– Endoliths.
• Optional– History of Rovers on Mars– How might Rovers of the kind we are making
be used by future explorers
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MDRS: Mars Desert Research Station
http://mars.byu.edu/html/aboutus.htm
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Doug Archer
BS BYU Physics 04
PHD. U of AZ 09, Designed ovens for Phoenix Mission.
Currently working at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX on the Mars Science Laboratory, the next robotic mission to Mars.
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http://www.udel.edu/research/polar/images/Artist%27sMarsLander.jpg
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Mars Science Lab is bigger than other Rovers
http://www.astrobio.net/images/galleryimages_images/Gallery_Image_6331.jpg
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Niki Farnsworth Brimhall
BS BYU Physics 04PHD. BYU 09, PhysicsPostdoc: U of Utah, Biomaterials
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Miriam Stephens West & Stephen West
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Hal near the MDRS
http://marsrover.byu.edu
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About the competition.
• “The University Rover Challenge (URC) is an annual international competition hosted by the Mars Society for University and College students to complete a given scenario using a rover the team has built.”
• It was announced Fall of 2006.
The writing on this slide and Much of the writing on the subsequent slides are from Wikipedia and BYU’s website. I mostly won’t use quotation marks.
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Travis Brown: Prime Mover 1st- 3rd BYU entries. Ahh the life of an
engineer. July 9, 2007
BYU ME 2009Notre Dame robotics
So was Neil Hinckley
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So was Nyssa Roderick Brown
As was Ellie
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A little more history of the BYU Rover.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYU_Mars_Rover
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Some unique things about the project.
• It is not a capstone or run by knowledgeable engineering professor.
• Professor Allred is more customer than manager.
• Students have done their own management and organization.
• We are very grateful for the nonengineers/ nonscientist on the project. Leadership, organization & financials.
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The BYU Mars Rover Team in 2009.
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Last year
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2010 featured the largest pool of registered teams yet.
• The tasks were once again similar, but some now with added complexity:
• Emergency Navigation to find a distressed astronaut and deliver a package
• Equipment Servicing to read a list of step-by-step commands directing the rover to push buttons, flip switches and plug an electrical plugs into outlets in a predefined order.
• Sample Return to search for a location in the area that exhibits signs of extremophiles, return the sample so that it can be analyzed at the base station.
• Remote Surveying to find the location of posts placed in the desert using the rover.
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We have 4 crosslisted classesECEn 493RBorgholthaus Michael A Broadbent Lane DavidCarlson Stephen JosephColes Shane GregoryGleave Nicholas SeanGutierrez Jaime MoisesKwarteng Barima Kwame AbabioNorgrant Andrew Kenneth
HONORS 293 R (7) Jones Gene RobertSmith Justin
Didn’t have time to get all of the pix.
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ME 495REllis Jeremy ConradGillespie MorganHendricks Lorin JamesJafek Alexander RobertKuhn Joshua BrianLee Victoria DawnLlewellyn Brandon ScottMarshall Daniel BoysenPorter Joshua EvanSchramm Trent Jonathan
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BYU’s effort 2010-11Design Teams on the Rover• Power Team headed up by Daniel Hearn • Com/Radio Team headed up by Mike Borg • Controls Team headed up by Daniel Woo • Chassis Team headed up by Mark Davis • Video Team headed up by Andrew
Norgrant
There is a need for more.
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We need help on the astrobiology task.
Sample Return Task:Teams will be given a field briefing by judges to discuss the task site. Teams controlling their rovers shall then select multiple (3-6) sites of potential biological interest within a 0.8 km radius of the start gate. Based upon investigation of the selected sites, teams shall then collect and return a single sample from the site they determine to have the greatest likelihood of containing photosynthetic bacteria such as cyanobacteria/blue-green algae, other bacterial colonies such as are associated with desert varnish, as well as other nonbacterial extremophiles such as lichen.
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John Barainca
found endoliths in this area.
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We have:
• Robust arm and sensor development• A chemical engineer (we thinking of GC
when we get sample back to tent.)We need geologist and someone who wants
to be an astrobiologist. • We are wondering about utilizing BYU
expertise in hyperspectral analysis to look for likely rocks. (Cameras and narrowband filters.)
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Bibliography
• http://marsrover.byu.edu/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYU_Mars_Rover
• http://mars.byu.edu/html/aboutus.htm
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The coating on the window on Sojourner’s alpha ray spectrometer –this is a element detector- was made by Yuan Fang at Moxtek. He received his PhD at BYU developing this.
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Spirit and Opportunity
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Simulated image of Spirit.
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Mars Statistics• Mass (kg) 6.421e+23 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.0745e-01 • Equatorial radius (km) 3,397.2 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)
5.3264e-01 • Mean density (gm/cm^3) 3.94 • Mean distance from the Sun (km) 227,940,000 • Mean distance from the Sun (Earth = 1)1.5237 • Rotational period (hours) 24.6229 • Rotational period (days) 1.025957 • Orbital period (days) 686.98 • Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 24.13 • Orbital eccentricity0.0934 • Tilt of axis (degrees) 25.19 Orbital inclination (degrees) 1.850 • Equatorial surface gravity (m/sec^2) 3.72 • Equatorial escape velocity (km/sec) 5.02 • Visual geometric albedo0.15 • Magnitude (Vo)-2.01
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Minimum surface temperature-140°C
Mean surface temperature-63°C
Maximum surface temperature 20°C
Atmospheric pressure (bars) 0.007
Atmospheric composition
Carbon Dioxide (C02) 95.3200%
Nitrogen (N2) 2.7000%
Argon (Ar) 1.6000%
Oxygen (O2) 0.1300%
Carbon Monoxide (CO) 0.0700%
Water (H2O) 0.0300%
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Kathleen Moncrieff
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Rover Loft. B-38 BYU
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John Barainca
found endoliths in this area.