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Patna,(BiharTimes): Students from BIT Mesra, Patna Campus have made a Lunar Excavator that
can go on the moon and excavate lunar soil. As a result of that they have been invited to NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition 2011, an internationally renowned robotics competition to be held at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, the United States between May 23 and 28, 2011. |
 The specialty of the robot is that it is an autonomous robot that can be controlled from a station on the Earth through a Wi-Fi network.
Since this robot is going to be used on the moon, it has been made with systems that can effectively counter the effects expected to be encountered on the moon. The robot uses Archimedes Screw, an ancient yet innovative technique to excavate the lunar soil. This principle works well in vacuum conditions, like that found on the moon. Also
this robot is made of materials that provide it a light weight structure and it occupies very less volume.
The teams were selected after the analysis of their proposed designs by NASA Kennedy Space Center experts. 60 teams were selected, 40 of
them from the US and 20 from outside US.
This robot can excavate about 22kgs in 15 minute time frame. With further modifications, this excavated mass will increase.
The team consists of members from five disciplines of engineering namely, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics and Production. The team consists of nine students and a faculty advisor.
The student group is led by Peetak Mitra and the other members are: G Anurag Reddy,
Rajat Tyagi, Anmol Sharma, Viswa Teja, Subhomoy Ghosh, Saurav Murarka, Shreyak Tiwari and
Aroop Sen.
The faculty advisor is Prof M A Hassan, from Mechanical Engineering Department.
The team will travel to Kennedy Space Center, Florida on May 20 for the event.
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