TY - GEN
T1 - A Comprehensive Analysis of Autonomous Construction of a Lunar Landing Pad Using a Network of Small Robots
AU - Muniyasamy, Sivaperuman
AU - O'Neill Cler, Aidan
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ASCE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The international efforts to establish a permanent base on the Moon have taken a new shape in recent decades. At the early stages of lunar base development, a safe and reliable landing pad is critical to facilitate continuous spacecraft landings and launchings. However, constructing a landing pad poses various challenges: micrometeoroid impacts, solar radiation, lunar dust, and extreme temperature fluctuations. We propose a team of small autonomous robots with chain configurations for site preparation and landing pad construction. The chain configuration has advantages over a single robot in site preparation tasks observed in our previous work. Modeling the wheel with lunar soil is vital to analyze and evaluate the performance of robots. Thus, we analyze robots' performance while performing tasks: site preparation, leveling, and compacting. It is important to evaluate and analyze ROI, energy cost, and resource cost associated with the landing pad construction to utilize the resources effectively.
AB - The international efforts to establish a permanent base on the Moon have taken a new shape in recent decades. At the early stages of lunar base development, a safe and reliable landing pad is critical to facilitate continuous spacecraft landings and launchings. However, constructing a landing pad poses various challenges: micrometeoroid impacts, solar radiation, lunar dust, and extreme temperature fluctuations. We propose a team of small autonomous robots with chain configurations for site preparation and landing pad construction. The chain configuration has advantages over a single robot in site preparation tasks observed in our previous work. Modeling the wheel with lunar soil is vital to analyze and evaluate the performance of robots. Thus, we analyze robots' performance while performing tasks: site preparation, leveling, and compacting. It is important to evaluate and analyze ROI, energy cost, and resource cost associated with the landing pad construction to utilize the resources effectively.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784485736.080
DO - 10.1061/9780784485736.080
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207935264
T3 - Earth and Space 2024: Engineering for Extreme Environments - Proceedings of the 19th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments
SP - 896
EP - 911
BT - Earth and Space 2024
A2 - Malla, Ramesh B.
A2 - Littell, Justin D.
A2 - Krishnan, Sudarshan
A2 - Rhode-Barbarigos, Landolf
A2 - Pradhananga, Nipesh
A2 - Lee, Seung Jae
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 19th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments, Earth and Space 2024
Y2 - 15 April 2024 through 18 April 2024
ER -