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Will the Amalthea rover need a camera?
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ReplyDeleteI think that adding a "core sampler", such as this one:
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would be good to mount onto the Amalthea rover because it will be able to take tube formed samples of Amalthea's sub-surface, allowing scientists to understand how densely bound Amalthea is.
I also think that possibly adding studded tires such as these:
http://www.custompocketbike.ca/shop/images/studded%20tires.jpg
would give the rover great traction on Amalthea's surface, allowing the rover to easily move over hills and down through trenches.
I liked JP's idea of an "excavator claw" to pick up an hold onto surface specimens from Amalthea. I could see this as being especially useful for handling rocks, or heavier artifacts that cannot be picked up with by a vacuum or core sampler.
ReplyDeleteI think we should use a solar panel to run the robot. For example the Mars Rover used one.
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one down side to this is that Jupiter is far from the sun and I'm not sure that it would work. Do you have any other ideas about a power source?
Other ideas for a power source... Solar panels and batteries {big batteries...} are apparently often used as a combination for robots for these types of long explorations. So I think we should take that into consideration, as well.
ReplyDeleteTires are also a big factor in the robot design... We really don't want to run much of a risk with flipping, so Erin's example with studded tires for great traction is something to take into consideration. Or something like this, runs less of a risk of possibly flipping on bumpy, rocky, etc. terrain.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s133/Warriorgirl123/tires.jpg
Erin, I like your idea for the core sampler.
ReplyDeleteExcept how do we build something like that out of Legos? Well, we can figure something out, I suppose.
And also, you're comment about JP's excavator claw, it could work. My only problem with it is the possibility of the thing it is carrying being dropped on it's trip back to Earth...
Yeah core sampler smart, big batteries is also smart. Studded tractor tracks would be a compromise for movement.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I really like the idea of solar panels or large batteries to power the rover. Morgan bought up a good pint about the solar panels however; Jupiter is 5.2 AU or 777 909 600 kilometers away from the sun, thats a longggg ways, and the light the planets and it's moons receive is very dim, probably not enough to supply the rover with sufficient power. Maybe we should do some more research on the solar panels, but so far I think batteries would be the best choice, but thats just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteFor movement, maybe we could combine the idea of studded tires, and Faith's idea of bulldozer belts like these:
https://mail.google.com/mail/ui=2&ik=aaf11f5527&view=att&th=1272f8dada1a960b&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw
and do something like studded bulldozer belts. Morgan also mentioned something in class about using hydraulics for stability/ shock absorbers, which I think would be really helpful.
As far as collection of rocks, etc. goes I'm not sure about how to build a core sampler with legos. Since we're not actually designing a real rover, maybe it's something we could pin-point where it would go if it were a real model. And for the excavator claw, maybe their could be a compartment within the rover that the claw could drop rocks into, so they would not fall out.
Here is a PDF format of the design idea's we have so far: http://aufdeken189.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/amalthea-rover-design-notes.pdf
hydraulics would only work on a real robot becuase this is made of out legos we are very limited.
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