Wood Wasp Inspired Planetary and Earth Drill

Gouache, Thibault P.; Gao, Yang; Gourinat, Yves; Coste, Pierre

doi:10.5772/8775

Cited by 6 publications

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“…Several prototypes exist that have been tested intensively in a wide range of substrates ranging from fine regolith simulants to icy substrates as the one shown in Figure 5C. Sakes et al (2020) developed a wood wasp inspired micro-drill prototype for minimal invasive surgery capable of achieving a stroke velocity of 4-8.77 mm/s and a transportation rate of up to 5.82 mg/ s. Still, a wood-wasp inspired drills for aerospace applications have yet to be deployed and tested within the space environment (Gao et al, 2006;Gouache et al, 2010;Pitcher et al, 2020;Alkalla et al, 2021).…”

Section: Planetary Exploration and Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetics for innovative and future-oriented space applications - A review

Banken

Oeffner²

2023

Front. Space Technol.

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Nature benefits from a progressive evolution over millions of years, always adapting and finding individual solutions for common problems. Hence, a pool of diverse and efficient solutions exists that may be transferable to technical systems. Biomimetics or bio-inspiration has been used as a design approach for decades, revolutionizing products and processes throughout various industries. Thus, multiple examples can also be found in the space sector, since many characteristics found in biological organisms are also essential for space systems like response-stimuli adaptability, robustness and lightweight construction, autonomy and intelligence, energy efficiency, and self-repair or healing capabilities. This review focuses on biomimetics within the field of aerospace engineering and summarizes existing bio-inspired concepts such as drilling tools (wood wasp ovipositor drilling), telescopes (lobster eye optics), or gasping features (gecko feet adhesion capabilities) that have already been conceptualized, partially tested, and applied within the space sector. A multitude of biological models are introduced and how they may be applicable within the space environment. In particular, this review highlights potential bio-inspired concepts for dealing with the harsh environment of space as well as challenges encountered during rocket launches, space system operations and space exploration activities. Moreover, it covers well-known and new biomimetic concepts for space debris removal and on-orbit operations such as space-based energy production, servicing and repair, and manufacture and assembly. Afterwards, a summary of the challenges associated with biomimetic design is presented to transparently show the constraints and obstacles of transferring biological concepts to technical systems, which need to be overcome to achieve a successful application of a biomimetic design approach. Overall, the review highlights the benefits of a biomimetic design approach and stresses the advantage of biomimetics for technological development as it oftentimes offers an efficient and functional solution that does not sacrifice a system’s reliability or robustness. Nevertheless, it also underlines the difficulties of the biomimetic design approach and offers some suggestions in how to approach this method.

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Section: Planetary Exploration and Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetics for innovative and future-oriented space applications - A review

Banken

Oeffner²

2023

Front. Space Technol.

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“…Suchlike an earthwormlike digger system, 5 a locust ovopositor-inspired micro-digger, 6 a furrow opener, 7 a plow blade, 8 an underwater digger (RoboClam), 9 a wood wasp inspired planetary and earth drill, 10 an underground chemical source location robot (Crabot), 11 a cassava harvester shovel, 12 a stubble breaker blade, 13 a stubble cutter 14 and a ridger 15 many digging apparatuses and systems are designed with inspiration from a variety of digging animals.…”

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Design and analysis of biomimetics based excavator bucket and tooth

Akter

Başak

2021

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E:

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Within the scope of this paper, various bucket tooth designs and a biomimetic bucket design were created in order to produce a solution on digging efficiency which is one of the general problems of construction machines. These designs were inspired by giant anteater and American badger front claws. The inspiration aspect was diversified by integrating the paw and claw curves of the giant anteater and by bringing American badger claws into the design in different ways. Furhermore, the designed biomimetic bucket alternatives were compared between each other and the standard bucket equipment used in the market by making a computer aided static analysis. The compared criteria were the equivalent stress and total deformation formed on the bucket itself, the excavation equipment and the excavated soil. According to the analysis results, when the bucket tooth named P2 is mounted to the standard bucket, it has 42% lower Von-Mises stress on than standard bucket tooth. Additionally, it is exposed 4,7% less total deformation than standard tooth. Also, in terms of maximum Von-Mises stress formed on the soil model, P2 causes 17,5% greater stress than the standard bucket tooth.

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