ALIEN Planet exploration rescue & recovery
About the Project
Goal:
You and your team, and for that matter, the entire ME218c class, have been contracted by an intergalatic corporation to respond to a distress signal. As it turns out, some miners have been trapped underneath the surface of a faraway planet after an underground explosion, and the class has been charged with developing a Basic All-Terrain Planetary Observation and Detection System (BATPODS) consisting of 14 planetary vehicles, which must carry remote camera payloads and interact with the environment, and 14 orbital controllers, which must transfer control of the vehicles between them as they orbit and move in and out of communications range.
Purpose:
The underlying purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to gain experience in integrating all that you have learned in the ME218 course sequence, with an emphasis on the new material in ME218c.
Task:
Design and build a tele-operated Basic All-Terrain Planetary Observation and Detection System (BATPODS) consisting of a Remotely Operated Aid for Mine Evacuation and Recovery (ROAMER) and a companion Personal Operation Datalink (POD). Each ROAMER must carry an SPDL-supplied Solar-Powered Environmental Camera Interface with Assistive Lamp (SPECIAL) to aid the operator of the POD in navigation. Groups of ROAMERs will co-operate in a simulated alien terrain to rescue a group of trapped miners.
Download of Full Description:
You and your team, and for that matter, the entire ME218c class, have been contracted by an intergalatic corporation to respond to a distress signal. As it turns out, some miners have been trapped underneath the surface of a faraway planet after an underground explosion, and the class has been charged with developing a Basic All-Terrain Planetary Observation and Detection System (BATPODS) consisting of 14 planetary vehicles, which must carry remote camera payloads and interact with the environment, and 14 orbital controllers, which must transfer control of the vehicles between them as they orbit and move in and out of communications range.
Purpose:
The underlying purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to gain experience in integrating all that you have learned in the ME218 course sequence, with an emphasis on the new material in ME218c.
Task:
Design and build a tele-operated Basic All-Terrain Planetary Observation and Detection System (BATPODS) consisting of a Remotely Operated Aid for Mine Evacuation and Recovery (ROAMER) and a companion Personal Operation Datalink (POD). Each ROAMER must carry an SPDL-supplied Solar-Powered Environmental Camera Interface with Assistive Lamp (SPECIAL) to aid the operator of the POD in navigation. Groups of ROAMERs will co-operate in a simulated alien terrain to rescue a group of trapped miners.
Download of Full Description:
| me218cprojectdescription.pdf |
environment
(a) Airlock Hatch containing Survival Chamber
(b) Survival Chamber containing trapped miners
(c) SPECIAL Camera & Lights
