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Lunar base construction robots
IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Towards a New Frontier of Applications, 2002President Bush called for the construction of a permanently manned lunar base. All serious plans for such a base require the use of lunar soil as shielding material against the Sun's radiation. Plans rely on the use of a large bulldozer-like vehicle to be driven by an astronaut, either locally or under teleoperation control.
Rodney A. Brooks +3 more
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Lunar base infrastructure construction: Challenges and future directions
Automation in ConstructionLieyun Ding, Wenbin Han
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Engineering, Design and Construction of Lunar Bases
Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2002How do we begin to expand our civilization to the Moon? What are the technical issues that infrastructural engineers, in particular, must address? This paper has the goal of introducing this fascinating area of structural mechanics, design, and construction. Published work of the past several decades about lunar bases is summarized. Additional emphasis
Haym Benaroya +2 more
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Lunar‐Base Construction Equipment and Methods Evaluation
Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 1993A process for evaluating lunar-base construction equipment and methods concepts is presented. The process is driven by the need for more quantitative, systematic, and logical methods for assessing further research and development requirements in an area where uncertainties are high, dependence upon terrestrial heuristics is questionable, and ...
Walter W. Boles +2 more
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Construction of lunar DEMs based on reflectance modelling
Advances in Space Research, 2014Abstract Existing lunar DEMs obtained based on laser altimetry or photogrammetric image analysis are characterised by high large-scale accuracies while their lateral resolution is strongly limited by noise or interpolation artifacts. In contrast, image-based photometric surface reconstruction approaches reveal small-scale surface detail but become ...
Arne Grumpe +2 more
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Moon Lighting: Illumination for Lunar Base Construction and Operations
Space 2002 and Robotics 2002, 2002Lunar bases will need lighting for exploration, construction, mining, industry, life support, operations, and maintenance. In many respects, lighting on the Moon will involve adaptations of familiar methods. Efficiency, robustness, and serviceability will be required. During the lunar day, sunlight is available using heliostats, lenses and light tubes.
Robert D. McGown +3 more
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Autonomous Robot Teams for Lunar Mining Base Construction and Operation
2020 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2020There is growing interest in expanding beyond space exploration and pursuing the dream of living and working in space. The next critical step towards living and working in space requires kick-starting a space economy. One important challenge with this space-economy is ensuring the ready supply and low-cost availability of raw materials.
Jekan Thangavelautham +2 more
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Civil Engineering in the Design and Construction of a Lunar Base
Space 2000, 2000Civil Engineering is getting prepared for operations in space. The Moon will presumably be the focal point in this new era. Civil Engineering professionals, in close cooperation with other scientists and engineers are in the phase of planning operations on the Moon.
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A Concept of Lunar Base Regenerative Water Management System Construction
SAE Technical Paper Series, 1995<div class="htmlview paragraph">A concept of developing a regenerative water management system (RWMS) for first lunar base missions is reviewed. The principal feature of the concept proposed is the maximum possible unification of RWMS for long-duration orbiting station and a lunar base with due regard to possible modification of the hardware for ...
N. M. Samsonov +6 more
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