CWRU Lunabotics

CWRU Lunabotics Case Lunabotics Club The challenge is for students to design and build an excavator, called a Lunabot, that can mine and deposit unar simulant.

NASA's Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). NASA will directly benefit from the competition by encouraging the development of innovative lunar excavation concepts from universities which may result in clever ideas and solutions which could be applied to an actual lun

ar excavation device or payload. The complexities of the challenge include the abrasive characteristics of the BP-1, the weight and size limitations of the Lunabot, and the ability to telerobotically or autonomously control the Lunabot from a remote mission control center. This year the scoring for the mining category will not be based primarily on the amount of material excavated in the allowed time but instead will require teams to consider a number of design and operation factors such as dust tolerance and projection, communications, vehicle mass, energy/power required, and level of autonomy.

Brainstorming 2014 Lunabot.... On the road back to Cleveland
05/26/2013

Brainstorming 2014 Lunabot.... On the road back to Cleveland

Working on sensor mast for 2014 Lunabot.... On the road back to Cleveland.
05/26/2013

Working on sensor mast for 2014 Lunabot.... On the road back to Cleveland.

Pseudo coding the 2014 Lunabot.... @ coco beach
05/25/2013

Pseudo coding the 2014 Lunabot.... @ coco beach

I wish we could use this guy: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9496
03/04/2013

I wish we could use this guy:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9496

Note: The High-Resolution version of this sensor is now available so this one is being discontinued. We're now selling them at a reduced price so get them while you can! The High-Resolution version can be found here.

01/19/2013

BIO: The Case Lunabotics team was formed in February 2012 by the current team lead, Amogha Srirangarajan. The main objective of the Case Lunabotics Team is to enable students interested in robotic space exploration to design, build, and test a lunar mining rover and compete with it at NASA’s international Lunabotics Mining Competition. Our team is divided into two primary groups, with the Mechanical Manufacturing (MM) team designing and building the physical robot, and the Systems and Controls (SysCon) team handling the electronics and computer systems, including path finding algorithms and artificial intelligence. The team follows a NASA project lifecycle, where it goes from the proposal (mission feasibility and definition) to preliminary design phase and the critical design review. The project then undergoes the final design phase, fabrication, integration, testing and debugging stages. This approach gives the students involved a hands-on experience in the STEM fields, and a project of this magnitude allows students from various backgrounds to come together and pool their resources to find elegant engineering solutions to problems that the designers of future lunar rovers will face.

01/19/2013

24 Hours SolidWorks Marathon! Starting 19th January @ 8:30 pm EST.

From Right To Left: Amogha [Team Lead], Peter [Safety Officer], Jacob, Marc, Nate, Eugene, Isaac, Stan, Kan, William [Sy...
01/19/2013

From Right To Left: Amogha [Team Lead], Peter [Safety Officer], Jacob, Marc, Nate, Eugene, Isaac, Stan, Kan, William [SysCon Lead]

Laser cut the small scale lunabot!
12/21/2012

Laser cut the small scale lunabot!

Hear is a sneak peak of the 1:10 scale lunabot chassis we are using to test: Vision, ROS interface, different drive syst...
12/20/2012

Hear is a sneak peak of the 1:10 scale lunabot chassis we are using to test: Vision, ROS interface, different drive systems etc.

Can't wait to watch this live!!OTV-3The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (AV-034) will deploy the U.S. military's X...
11/04/2012

Can't wait to watch this live!!
OTV-3
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (AV-034) will deploy the U.S. military's X-37B, a prototype spaceplane also called the Orbital Test Vehicle, on the program's third mission. The rocket will fly in the 501 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.

OMG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUdqi1VB0EThe entire team is definitely watching this!
10/23/2012

OMG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUdqi1VB0E

The entire team is definitely watching this!

Tony Stark returns to a world where things just aren't the same after the events of The Avengers. He will once again be pushed to his limit by a new threat.

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