Sonoma Lunabotics at the NASA RMC 2022

Enabling a permanent and sustainable lunar presence

Presenter: Bryce Jensen

Co-Presenter(s):
Jason Knight-Han, Jesus Perez-Quintero, Walter Foster, Forest Yllescas

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 21-22

Semester: Spring

Faculty Mentor: Nansong Wu

Department: Engineering

Funding Source/Sponsor: Other

Other Funding Source/Program: NASA grant

President's Strategic Plan Goal: Sustainability and Environmental Inquiry

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1bFE4mMRc2vwHj76yFOFMkTiZ3u7dv7uT

Abstract:
This research focused on designing, building and testing a robot for the task of harvesting regolith on the lunar surface by mining, transporting, and depositing regolith safely and allowing access to the regolith for future applications. This is Sonoma State’s first year competing in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) which is a competition for the purpose of enabling a sustainable lunar architecture as part of the larger Artemis Plan.