Design and Implementation of an Astronaut Assistive Mining Robot
Date
2017-08-18
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IIUC Central Library
Abstract
In this era of science and technology robotics is a very popular field of research. Many
researchers all over the world try to implement various types of robots for using in
different field instead of human. The main focus of the project is to develop a robot
which is able to help astronaut indifferent planetary surface. The robot can be
controlled by the command of human by the remote. Joysticks and Xbee transceiver
module has been used for sending and receiving all the control signal from the remote.
Video transmission has been done by mobile camera for controlling the robot by seeing
the circumstances in the site. For mining and drilling a robotic arm with a driller has
been used for drilling the regolith and a collector or digger has also been added for
digging and collecting regolith. For storing the collected regolith main storage has been
attached in the robot and actuators are used in the degrees of freedom of arm, collector
and storage. This robot performs all the objectives almost satisfactorily. For using gear
motors the performance of this robot is slightly slow. The robotic arm moves slowly but
smoothly. The collector can collect sand and rock and can store them. It can also dump
stored regolith in a specific box.
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Keywords
Astronaut assistive Robot, Remote, Joystick, Xbee, Mobile Camera, Robotic Arm, Driller, Digger, Storage, Actuator.