Rover Reverse Engineering
NASA has recently adopted a policy to offer high monetary awards for privately developed innovations in space exploration. Additionally, private innovation consortiums, such as the GOOGLE Lunar X Prize, are providing awards as well:
“The Google Lunar X PRIZE is igniting a new era of lunar exploration by offering the largest international incentive prize of all time. A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images, and data back to the Earth.”
To this end, it is your challenge to reverse engineer the current Mars rover design to discover engineering strategies and technological capacities of the automated rover. Your reverse-engineering documentation can then be sold to competing private companies to provide valuable insight into decades of NASA engineering.
Reverse Engineering (RE) is defined by the Military Handbook MIL-HDBK-115 (ME) as: "…the process of duplicating an item functionally and dimensionally by physically examining and measuring existing parts to develop the technical data (physical and material characteristics) required for competitive procurement."
The following technological capacities and processes of the project must be analysis to better understand how the entirety of the system functioned.
Rover
Aeroshell
Decent Procedure
NASA has recently adopted a policy to offer high monetary awards for privately developed innovations in space exploration. Additionally, private innovation consortiums, such as the GOOGLE Lunar X Prize, are providing awards as well:
“The Google Lunar X PRIZE is igniting a new era of lunar exploration by offering the largest international incentive prize of all time. A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images, and data back to the Earth.”
To this end, it is your challenge to reverse engineer the current Mars rover design to discover engineering strategies and technological capacities of the automated rover. Your reverse-engineering documentation can then be sold to competing private companies to provide valuable insight into decades of NASA engineering.
Reverse Engineering (RE) is defined by the Military Handbook MIL-HDBK-115 (ME) as: "…the process of duplicating an item functionally and dimensionally by physically examining and measuring existing parts to develop the technical data (physical and material characteristics) required for competitive procurement."
The following technological capacities and processes of the project must be analysis to better understand how the entirety of the system functioned.
Rover
Aeroshell
Decent Procedure
Rover missions
Nasa Has several rover missions, and we have our students understanding the concept of a rover - space exploration machine
curiosity
spirit
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Rover Design
students learn rover concepts by using boe bots
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Rover prototype
students design and build rovers in class
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