the mission:

Bring samples of true interest to analyze whit better equipment in the moon base, or in earth.

objectives:

1) pick samples with potential value, analyze faster and discard the samples of low value.
2) Not damage the samples.

3) allow some functionality to show everyone on earth data finds of the mission.

the solution:

first we take some parameters to assignee value of a sample, to can know exactly wen a sample present something out of average to invest. the interest are 4: history, miner, meteorites and building potential.

history: the history of our moon is content in the regolith in the surface of the moon, so for this, we proposed a rover with the only tasks of take a sample in a tube of a certain longitude, to analyze directly in earth, like the tubes of ice on the pole taking to study the old history of our planet.

miner: to a permanent base on moon, we are going to need minerals to hydroponics, he3 for the energy, water and other precious resources. for this we propose a drill whit the tube for like the history rover, but this is equip with x-ray fluorescents scanners to see the elements in the sample and x ray diffraction, for the crystalline structure. the sample are discharged if the values of this scanners are more low of the specs of are not in the sample presents of this components.

meteorites: we propose robotics arms to take meteorite samples, whit a fast scan whit XRD to determinate the origin of the meteor, if the origin is not the moon the sample come for the lab.

buildings: we propose a rover equip with cameras pointing to the surface to analyze, searching for the characteristics of the regolith, and if this match whit the parameters of a substrate compatible whit the buildings we want to build in that place, bring a sample to the base (analyze for astronauts, not need to come back to earth) for a soil test.

Social application: also, to get the people more close to the project, and more exited for the incoming tripulate mission, we propose that the cameras on board the rovers can be accessible via app, and also the data of a discovery made for a rover.

Data flow:

The idea is get a server working in the moon, arriving all a month before the tripulated mission, to get as many samples it can right when they arrive.

Rovers: the rovers use the connected with the server to transmit the data of the analysis made, position and other data sensors. also, the database in the server can be used to take the decision con conserve the sample of discard. the server also permit to the astronauts the manual control of a rover, if is need it.

Server: receive all data from the rovers, and deliver to earth. also coordinates the places where the rovers go to take samples, it give the location of the zones of interest.

Server (earth): receive the data of the cameras on connect the app users to give then updated info about the mission while it's on progress.

app: allow users to see data of the rovers, shared and stay tune about the mission.

Why X-Ray ?

The X Ray fluorescents and diffraction are easy to implement in the rover, and not damage the samples. it can provide a lot of Intel about the composition of a sample.

Prototype POC (proof of concept)

We build a robot, whit the drill and a color scanner , whit autonomous movement and obstacle avoidance. also, a server communicating the data of the frontal camera and the scans results communicated via wifi.

How the POC escalate for real life?

there are going to have a mobility like a rovers, all terrain, real scanners of x rays, and the camera are going to be a double, to capture the profundity with the parallax in the camera to navigate autonomy.

we also take data about the elements abundance in the moon, to know what we are gona bee locking for, here are our resources

https://sservi.nasa.gov/

https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-toolkit/

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars/#top

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/lunar_...

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/decadal/leag/DavidJLoftus...

The team:

Programmer: Agustín Zuñiga agustinezm@gmail.com

Robotics: Andres Rosalez andeliros@yahoo.com.ar

Mobile app designer: Sabina Libertad Mangiavacchi sabinalibertad89@gmail.com