Robotic Explorer for Hypothesized Surfaces – Sir Farquaad’s Makers

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Professor James McDonald

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project is a robotic explorer prototype made to traverse the terrain of Psyche. Due to Psyche’s metallic surface and low gravity, this prototype has embedded magnets in its tracked wheels and a brush system to remove any unwanted dust and iron particles from the magnets and wheels. This prototype also has a camera to pick up visual data of Psyche’s surface.

 

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This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “EEE 488”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.