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Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base
Alexis Munguia, Eryc Rodriguez, Drake Russ +1
There are renewed efforts to build a lunar base and house a team of astronauts on the Moon for extended periods. However, important challenges remain, such as a rapid-response fire…
Development of Techniques Enabling Suborbital Small Object Capture Around Low Gravity Asteroids
Leonard Vance, Jekan Thangavelautham
The exploration of small body asteroids provides direct access to the primitive building blocks of our solar system. Sample and return missions enable chemical and radioisotope stu…
FemtoSats for Exploring Permanently Shadowed Regions on the Moon
Alvaro Diaz-Flores, José Fernández, Leonard Vance +2
The recent, rapid advancement in space exploration is thanks to the accelerated miniaturization of electronics components on a spacecraft that is reducing the mass, volume and cost…
Co-Evolution of Multi-Robot Controllers and Task Cues for Off-World Open Pit Mining
Jekan Thangavelautham, Yinan Xu
Robots are ideal for open-pit mining on the Moon as its a dull, dirty, and dangerous task. The challenge is to scale up productivity with an ever-increasing number of robots. This…
The Design of a Space-based Observation and Tracking System for Interstellar Objects
Ravi teja Nallapu, Yinan Xu, Abraham Marquez +2
The recent observation of interstellar objects, 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov cross the solar system opened new opportunities for planetary science and planetary defense. As the first…
Autonomous Robot Swarms for Off-World Construction and Resource Mining
Jekan Thangavelautham
Kick-starting the space economy requires identification of critical resources that can lower the cost of space transport, sustain logistic bases and communication relay networks be…