Robotics

For Robotics my partner and I from our table, 3/4,were assigned to do a space-themed robot project with an EV3 Lego Robot base. London and I decided to choose the Lunar Soil Rover mission for our project and for extra credit, the NASA astronaut spacesuit problems it faces with Regolith.
''Lunar Soil, Regolith? what's that?' You may ask yourself, the term 'Lunar Soil' , or 'Regolith is just a fancy way to say Moon Dirt, also known as Moon Dust. Lunar Soil is made up of small minerals, such as: crystalline rock plus breccia fragments, glasses, and agglutinates.
We both equally knew the project was going to be hard with other people at our table chitchatting about other topics, but we were able to get accepted and clear pass the first test, sketching out our robot's base, which was a relief.
My sketches for our robot, 'Izu':

"The NB45. also known as the “NASA.BOT.45”, is an EV3 robot-type connected to the main landing gear. The wire the IZU will need is a thick Helix cable, making sure any space rocks that the shuttle faces won’t break the prototype off.

It’s purpose is to collect research and data off of dust mitigation since of the several problems NASA has faced with it, such as astronauts' spacesuits getting torn up by it.

The IZU bot will scoop up “moon dust” with an aluminum alloy tray, once they scoop up the moon dust, it will drop it into another aluminum alloy bucket-like container.

Within a few hours it will send as much data as it collected from the moon dust it collected to NASA’s space station, with the extra information the robot collected NASA could fix the problems they face with moon dust by the robot’s data. "

My sketches of note-taking. I was quick, but I made sure to sketch down any ideas or information I had collected. As you can see there's two astronauts, we had to learn about the struggles and issues NASA goes through with moon dust, damaging spacesuits and even their space technology once landed on the moon. We we're assigned to try to see if we could come up with strategy to quick-fixing this problem. These sketches we're just for the basics of what spacesuits look like, drawing the layers of the suit later on, but didn't occur to happen.

Once we got accepted for our sketches and research of our Lunar Soil Robot, we immediately went into building. With the information we collected, we quickly made 'Izu' into a workable lunar soil collector. We struggled at first since other team from the same table had their partner missing, so they had to come join us to build. We didn't know that would make so many troubles and struggles throughout the project.

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