Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
Start Date
26-4-1995 2:00 PM
End Date
26-4-1995 5:00 PM
Description
Developing a human habitat on the lunar surface will require an extensive infrastructure with a large number of assembled and tested components. Automating the development of this infrastructure using robotic systems would greatly reduce the cost. However, advances in the technology must be reali/.ed for robots to be used in such typical tasks as mating module and equipment interfaces and connecting umbilicals and fasteners.
This paper addresses the challenges in automating the assembly of lunar components. The specific tasks which must be automated and the corresponding technology advances required are discussed here. This is an attempt to foster discussion of the issues of automating lunar surface operations and to highlight the most critical areas of technology that must be addressed to make lunar habitation a reality.
Paper Session II-C - Can Robots Build a Lunar Habitat?
Holiday Inn, Manatee Rooms A & B
Developing a human habitat on the lunar surface will require an extensive infrastructure with a large number of assembled and tested components. Automating the development of this infrastructure using robotic systems would greatly reduce the cost. However, advances in the technology must be reali/.ed for robots to be used in such typical tasks as mating module and equipment interfaces and connecting umbilicals and fasteners.
This paper addresses the challenges in automating the assembly of lunar components. The specific tasks which must be automated and the corresponding technology advances required are discussed here. This is an attempt to foster discussion of the issues of automating lunar surface operations and to highlight the most critical areas of technology that must be addressed to make lunar habitation a reality.
Comments
Lunar Industrialization and Colonization
Session Chairman: Hyam Benaroya, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University
Session Organizer: Alan Drysdale