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Virtual Planetary Exploration
The Mars Drone
Summary
The Mars drone would be the first and most advanced demonstration of technology to prove that we can fly on another planet.The Mars drone is faster and able to cover more terrain than a Rover and can take higher resolution images than an orbiting ship. its goal is to make scientific discoveries and facilitate astronomical expeditions.It can also be used as an explorer as a small vehicle, can perform reconnaissance in different places or routes, to advance with future Rover or it could be an autonomous aircraft or perhaps one that explores places where humans and Rovers cannot easily access, such as polar ice caps, cliff sides, etc.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Functions:
The Mars drone would not use chemical fuel to use chemical fuel, we would need a tank with the capacity to carry fuel, which is equivalent to being very heavy. and that much of the socol fuel uses simply to be able to push fuel itself as a complete system and that fuel consumption exponentially according to the mission becomes more demanding.
Therefore, the ideal fuel is one that generates a boost by a small mass of fuel, for a long time and time, therefore, the unit used to measure the quality of an engine, is the specific impulse.
For example, Amount of energy was read. By the fuel mass for a while. The specific impulse, a unit that is measured in seconds.
The Mars drone would use ion motors:
Ion testing is an electric current that becomes hot in a filament that generates a flow of ions (molecules or atoms with electrical charge) coming out of one end of the engine. This flow generates a very dim thrust, but it is so continuous over time that it generates a specific impulse and the filament would heat up and recharge with solar panels. These engines have already been tested and works, but have not been created for drones. But being in Tuesday's environment. Engines don't need as much energy to fly over the planet at high speeds. But this is just a theory that hasn't been created or tested.
Robotic Arm:
The robotic arm of the Mars drone is a type of mechanical arm, normally programmable, with functions similar to those of a human arm; this can be the total sum of the mechanism or it can be part of a more complex robot. The parts of these manipulators or arms are interconnected through joints that can both a rotational motion, as well as a translational or linear displacement motion.
How We Developed This Project
What inspired us was the creation of new technologies to explore in space in this case is the surface of the planet Mars.
Our approach is based on the opportunity to discover new life on another planet to inhabit.
The software we use is Tinkercard to make the 3D prototype.
We hope that our idea is in a reality for this to help us in researching new surfaces on various planets, starting with the planet Mars.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
The Mars drone we won't be able to direct it from Earth. Since we have 20m delay, we burn sequences. Therefore, be thirsty before it is shaped. With gyroscopes, accelerometers, a camera, an altimeter and an inclinometer.
This set of sensors. They would make real-time measurements of the terrain with gyroscopes and accelerometers censoring on board and real-time estimates of the vehicle's condition, which would be continuously done with hundreds of GHz and then power the closed-circuit control algorithm that takes the estimated state and generates the engine level-to-level correction and therefore the engines were to be continuously.
It has to survive very low temperatures, between -80 and -100 degrees Celsius at night. So the drone was carrying batteries, but these wouldn't be for power. These batteries hot and larida companies surrounding with our electronic table, bones, our censors. Don't let them stay warm too.
Then in the center of the drone the drum ring.
There is a space between the battery and the circuit board. Around the batteries and circuit board by locking a fuselage housing and in turn it will close with carbon, gaseous around. And then, we would use CO2 gas as an insulating material.
Project Demo
Here's our 30-second video
Data & Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/desertrats/desert_rats_2007.html
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120011764
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20090012335