High-Level Project Summary
On this challenging project, we did some research about the topic so we could be able to find a solutionto the problematic. What we looked for this poblematic was the materials and the posible sistems that we can use in our rover, in our case, we think that the most viable souce is the wind energy, because of the air currents of the planet, after this, our next task was find the energy that we need to move the rover, and with this to know is the energy source is the correct one. Other important point that search was the batery and generator of our machine, and some other materials, like the covaering of the rover, components, and metals.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The rover has a size of 2.2X3X2.7 m, we thought about the wind energy for the posible source of energy, because of the air courrents that the planets has, however, we would use turbines for the energy that we need for the whole sistem (movement and components), the turbine will be in a side of the rover, the turbine will trasform that mecanic energy into electric energy due to a generator, and that energy will go back to the tires, that are connected to the wheels, in this way is how the rover will move.
The wheel has the shape of a tire, that has a band in the outside which gives mobivility to the rover, however, inside the band we'll find the turbines, that are going to be align, these turbines will have a suspensor that helps them to rotate. The turbines will be connected to a weather vane which will move the turbine to the direction of the air current in the atmosphere.
The base material for the rover will be an alloy of titanium and graphene, since the titanium is a really stong metal that can be used for the structure and durabillity, and strehngth of the machine, however, the alloy with graphene can give titanium the properties of termic protection and also resistent to the atmosphere of venus, with a recover of graphene that will make the rover even more resistant to the environment conditions.
Some of the components that we are contemplating to make use of are cameras, sensors, battery, a generator, insulation materials, mechanic arms, termic cameras, etc.
Space Agency Data
We use the software Maya, where we modelate our prototype, the rover with all the specifications we gave in the previous spaces, it helped us a lot because, we had a more clear and precise view of the machine we wanted to use.
Hackathon Journey
We learn a lot of new things, for example, to modelate something in a sofware, it was really fun, we meet other people that help us in the proyect and that also share with us their knowledge and experience, not only in our field but others too. We choose this proyect because we thought that was a really interesting proyect to do that can put all our knowledge in differents areas to create a innovated idea that can solve the problematic.
Our aproach in this challenge was to use the materias, components, chemicals, etc.,that alredy exist in the atmosphere and use it to generate energy.
References
We use the software Maya, where we create our prototype.
We also get information from the following links:
- Ancajima, L. (2020, July 30). Este es Modelo Ganador para el rover Camino a Venus: "Quiere Explorar El Infierno". RPP. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://rpp.pe/ciencia/espacio/nasa-venus-este-es-modelo-ganador-para-el-rover-que-quiere-explorar-el-infierno-perseverance-marte-noticia-1283391
- El Grafeno: Propiedades y Aplicaciones - Graphenano nanotechnologies. (n.d.). Retrieved October 3, 2022, from https://www.graphenano.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Que-es-el-grafeno.pdf
- Greicius, T. (2020, July 6). NASA's Venus Rover Challenge Winners announced. NASA. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-venus-rover-challenge-winners-announced
- Madrid, T. E. R. E. S. A. G. U. E. R. R. E. R. O., Russo, M. C., MacPollo, Bellongurujazz, N. M., Mondarruego, Maicol320, Felipegs, Aussie, Dakituya, Angelib, & dematic2011. (2015, January 9). 'Supergrafeno' ultrarresistente. ELMUNDO. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2015/01/09/54aede62ca47412b188b4578.html#:~:text=Ahora%2C%20en%20un%20art%C3%ADculo%20publicado,y%20una%20humedad%20del%20100%25
- Soluciones para el Almacenamiento de ácido Sulfúrico. PH Technology. (2021, June 24). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://ph-technology.net/soluciones-para-el-almacenamiento-de-acido-sulfurico/
- Sánchez, R. (2021, March 15). ¿Pueden Arder Los Diamantes? MuyInteresante.es. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://www.muyinteresante.es/ciencia/articulo/pueden-arder-los-diamantes-871615806755#:~:text=Y%2C%20para%20ello%2C%20la%20mejor,y%20posteriormente%20se%20vuelve%20blanco.
- ¿Puede el ácido disolver diamantes? Quora. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://es.quora.com/Puede-el-%C3%A1cido-disolver-diamantes
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#Venus, #Rover, #hardware