System Engineering Education for All Engineers - A Capstone Design Approach

Chaput, Armand J.

doi:10.18260/p.25995

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“…In 2020, NASA transited to a Lunar-focused competition, and Table I represents the competition year, name, and the allowed countries to participate [6]. Many previously participating teams in NASA RMC presented their robots' design and operation following NASA requirements [16,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

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Space Mining Robot Prototype for NASA Robotic Mining Competition Utilizing Systems Engineering Principles

Tashtoush¹,

Vazquez²,

Herrera³

et al. 2021

IJACSA

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The 2017 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) is an outstanding opportunity for engineering students to implement all the knowledge and experience that they gained in the undergraduate years, in building a robot that will provide an intellectual insight to NASA, to develop innovative robotic excavation concepts. For this competition, multiple universities from all over the U.S. will create teams of students and faculty members to design and build a mining robot that can traverse, mine, excavate at least 10 kg of regolith, then deposit it in a bin in the challenging simulated Martian terrain. Our team's goal is to improve on our current design and overcome DustyTRON 2.0's limitations by analyzing them and implementing new engineering solutions. The process to improve this system will enable our team members to learn mechanical, electrical, and software engineering. DustyTRON 3.0 is divided into three subteams, namely, Mechanical, Circuitry, Software sub-teams. The mechanical team focused on solving the mechanical structure, robot mobility, stability, and weight distribution. The circuitry team focused on the electrical components such as batteries, wiring, and motors. The Software team focused on programming the NVidia TK1, Arduino controller, and camera integration. This paper will outline the detailed work following systems engineering principles to complete this project, from research, to design process and robot building compete at the Kennedy Space Center. Only 54 teams were invited to participate from all over the US and DustyTRON team represented the state of Texas and placed the 29th and awarded the "Innovative Design" award.

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Space Mining Robot Prototype for NASA Robotic Mining Competition Utilizing Systems Engineering Principles

Tashtoush¹,

Vazquez²,

Herrera³

et al. 2021

IJACSA

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“…In 2020, NASA transited to a Lunar focused competition, and Table I represent the competition year, name and the allowed countries to participate. Many teams allover the United state presented in the robotics design they came up with and met the NASA RMC requirements [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. In this paper DustyTRON team is presenting their robot, the design process and their achievements in the 2016 NASA RMC.…”

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Developing a Mining Robot for Mars Exploitation: NASA Robotics Mining Competition (RMC)

Tashtoush¹,

Velazquez²,

Aranguren³

et al. 2020

IJACSA

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“…Aerospace engineering is a field with a long history of use of systems engineering, and systems engineering is often incorporated in undergraduate programs. For example, systems engineering plays a major role in the aeronautical senior capstone project offered at the University of Texas at Austin in the Aerospace Engineering department (Chaput 2016). Likewise, systems engineering plays a major role in the aerospace senior capstone project offered at Texas A&M University (Valasek and Shryock 2015).…”

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NASA's Robotic Mining Competition Provides Undergraduates Full Life Cycle Systems Engineering Experience

Stecklein

2017

INCOSE International Symp

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NASA has held an annual robotic mining competition for teams of university/college students since 2010. This competition is yearlong, suitable for a senior university engineering capstone project. It encompasses the full project life cycle from ideation of a robot design, through tele‐operation of the robot collecting regolith in simulated Mars conditions, to disposal of the robot systems after the competition. A major required element for this competition is a Systems Engineering Paper in which each team describes the systems engineering approaches used on their project. The score for the Systems Engineering Paper contributes 25% towards the team's score for the competition's grand prize. The required use of systems engineering on the project by this competition introduces the students to an intense practical application of systems engineering throughout a full project life cycle.

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System Engineering Education for All Engineers - A Capstone Design Approach

Cited by 7 publications

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Space Mining Robot Prototype for NASA Robotic Mining Competition Utilizing Systems Engineering Principles

Space Mining Robot Prototype for NASA Robotic Mining Competition Utilizing Systems Engineering Principles

Developing a Mining Robot for Mars Exploitation: NASA Robotics Mining Competition (RMC)

NASA's Robotic Mining Competition Provides Undergraduates Full Life Cycle Systems Engineering Experience

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