Awards & Nominations
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Global Nominee
Project Singularity
High-Level Project Summary
Mars, also known as the Red Planet, is one of Earth's two closest planetary neighbors, aside from Venus. Recent expeditions have revealed that despite Mars' reputation for being extremely chilly, dry, and hostile, Mars and Earth really share a number of characteristics. "Project Singularity" provides unique and innovative designs for tools, furniture, and other items that are useful and efficient, necessary for a comfortable and convenient life in space. These designs include a replacement rover wheel, an innovative workshop table, and other multitasking tools. "Project Singularity" aims to make the future of technological growth a reality through design and 3D printing.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Replacement Rover Wheel Design |
The Dimensions of the wheel would be the same as the Perseverance and Curiosity rover. The Wheel hub would be printed with the metal printer it would need to be sectioned of to fit in the dimensions of the printer. The threads on the other hand would be printed on the plastic printer. By doing so the threads would easily be replaced when worn off due to usage. The wheel cover would be printed using the plastic printer, the main purpose of this cover is to keep sand and rocks out which could increase the weight of the rover thus lessening its efficiency.
Figure 1. Rover Wheel Isometric View 1
Figure 2. Rover Wheel Isometric View 2
Figure 3. Rover Wheel Exploded View
The Project Singularity Rover wheel design offers black threads, 3D printed in plastic material for convenient replacement when worn out. Moreover, this design has a wheel cover that will keep the sand and rocks out on the Red Planet. Additionally, this design provides thicker threads in comparison to NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers.
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Tool 01 - Knife-Torch Tool
The functionality of a utility knife is a tool for general work purposes. Whilst life on mars may be different from earth the mindset of man would still be the same. The base of the tool would be printed from the plastic printer while the blade and the torch nozzle would be manufactured using the metal printer.
Figure 4. Knife-Torch Tool Isometric View 1
Figure 5. Knife-Torch Tool Isometric View 2
Figure 6. Knife-Torch Tool Folded View
The body is printed using the plastic printer, while the blade and the nozzle are made by the metal printer. The ignition system for the torch part is looted from existing machinery.
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Tool 03 - Wrench, Drill and Screwdriver Tool
A Power tool is always a great tool to have on hand. By creating a multifunctional rotary tool, repairs could be made faster on mars. With access to a metal printer, multiple bits could be made to fit the users needs. While the other side caters to bolts, nuts or anything that needs to be rotated. The design principle is a number of small metal shafts that are spring actuated so when a force is applied it grips the part to be rotated.
Figure 6. Isometric View of the Wrench, Drill, and Screwdriver 1
Figure 7. Isometric View of the Wrench, Drill, and Screwdriver 2
The body is printed using the plastic printer, whilst the drill and wrench end is printed with the metal printer.
Space Agency Data
Space Agency Data provides an accessible registry describing scientific data sets on NASA's space technologies. and many more. This includes NASA's 3D Resources (https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models), which have simplified designs of rover wheels, as well as many other models, including some basic tools and other useful resources related to Mars Habitation.
As such, Project Singularity utilized various 3D resources, such as the models of the Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers, as inspiration in modeling an effective and efficient replacement rover wheel. Moreover, Project Singularity made use of the Deep Space Habitability Design Guidelines Based on the NASA NextSTEP Phase 2 Ground Test Program (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001427/downloads/20200001427.pdf), which provided useful information on the habitation design guidelines for deep space habitats like Mars. These guidelines offer helpful and important information that acts as a foundation for the development of the design project.
Furthermore, Project Singularity researched NASA's Analog Missions (https://www.nasa.gov/analogs), CHAPEA (https://www.nasa.gov/chapea), and other media sources (https://www.nasa.gov/analogs/media) for critical information on analog habitats regarding the appropriate materials to be used based on the space travel conditions necessary to live in space, which contributed to the concept of the design.
To guarantee compatibility with the terrain that the rover would be traversing, Project Singularity designed the rover wheel while keeping in mind the 3D CSA Mars Emulation Terrain Dataset (https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/dataset/65376529-3z6l-6u7e-732sbzy824wa25).
Hackathon Journey
Unique. Cool. Exciting.
Space Apps 2022 has opened millions of doors of opportunity for Team Singularity. The hackathon journey has been a roller coaster ride for all of us. Starting from randomly registering due to curiosity and thinking of challenging ourselves and pushing it to our limits, up to the unexpected turn of events, the team has a full schedule during the hackathon, making it very hectic for all of the members. Nevertheless, the team persevered and we were able to finish our project. This challenge showed us the joy of 3D printing and designing. Through experience, we were able to strengthen our bonds and camaraderie. At the end of this journey, it’s been a delight to work with this team.
References
3D Models are Designed using Solid Edge Academic Version 2022
Rendered using Keyshot 9
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