The NASA Lunabotics Challenge is a robotics competition that allows teams from across the country to design and build a lunar mining robot. Teams can prove their engineering skills by showcasing a robot with the ability to navigate simulated lunar terrain, collect regolith, and construct a berm on the regolith surface. With new competition rules this year, the WPI Lunabotics Team designed and manufactured Muffin. A lightweight, agile, and autonomous robot, Muffin takes inspiration from successful robots at past Lunabotics competitions. The project also allowed the team to develop invaluable engineering skills they will use throughout their careers. Using these skills, the team created innovative subsystems to meet the challenges of the competition.

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Creator

• Giacalone, Giovanni
• Nguyen, Huy-Toan
• Carty, Zeb
• Tan, Terence
• Byrne, Brendan
• MacInerney, Ian
• Huang, Kelli
• Thal, Sean

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042424-103310
• 121464

Keyword

• Space
• Robotics
• Dirt
• Autonomy
• Moon
• Mechanical

Advisor

• Stafford, Kenneth A.
• Pinciroli, Carlo

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

Source

• E-project-042424-103310

Rights statement

• In Copyright