On May 2 1-26, 20 12, the third annual NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition will be held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This event brings together student teams from universities around the world to compete in an engineering challenge. Each team must design, build and operate a robotic excavator that can collect artificial lunar soil and deposit it at a target location. Montana State University, Bozeman, is one of the institutions selected to field a team this year. This paper will summarize the goals of MSU's lunar excavator project, known as the Autonomous Lunar Explorer (ALE), along with the engineering process that the MSU team is using to fulfill these goals, according to NASA's systems engineering guidelines.


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    Title :

    Montana ALE (Autonomous Lunar Excavator) Systems Engineering Report


    Contributors:
    B. J. Hull (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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