Space drilling will require autonomous systems, both for robotic exploration and to support future human exploration, as energy, mass and human presence will be scarce. A series of planetary-prototype drilling projects have developed and fieldtested drilling automation and robotics technologies for projected use in missions during the 2010s. These have demonstrated automated control of the drilling process and topside drill string and sample handling. This paper will discuss past results in field tests of drilling automation software, and the tradeoffs between the use of planetary analog sites and laboratory testing. It will also discuss several different terrestrial analog sites (Arctic, Antarctic dry valleys, US southwest, Mauna Kea, Rio Tinto) in the varying roles needed to support validation of subsurface access for exploration of the subsurface on other planetary bodies, primarily focused on operations and requirements for drilling on the Moon and Mars, as well as contrasting these locations.


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    Title :

    Planetary Analogs for Drilling Automation Testing


    Contributors:
    Glass, B. (author) / Thompson, S. (author) / Paulsen, G. (author)

    Conference:

    12th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments; and Fourth NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration ; 2010 ; Honolulu, Hawaii, United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2010-03-11




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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