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Moon Rover Bot design brief. Background There are many applications where a Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) or Robots are used in dangerous or inaccessible environments to carry out important tasks. They have been used on the moon, on Mars and for bomb disposal. Tasks could include negotiating obstacles, inspection, remote tooling, sorting, picking and placing, segregating and resizing. Space exploration will almost certainly require 3D printed components made and assembled by Robots in space. You are asked to help in developing prototypes for this mission. Brief: Your team are tasked to design and make a prototype Moon Rover Bot to perform a set range of tasks. You will be given a budget of £500 and your team will mentored by engineering experts. A simulated moon surface has been designed by BEC Fab Lab and you will be given a scale plan and photographs of this. The competition will be judged at the competition judging event at the Lakes College on Thursday 27 th February. You will be able to choose a business to work with your team at the launch and mentoring event on Tuesday 7 th October. Your Robot will be marked against a scoring schedule (below) and the winner will be the team with the highest score. In the event of a draw time taken to negotiate the course will be taken into account and will decide the winner. Time to complete the course will be limited to 5 minutes per team. It is expected that you will use off the shelf components and control equipment however credit will be given for teams that show a high level of innovation, in house design and manufacture. Lap tops, tablets, phones, radio transmitters etc. will be classed as borrowed and will not be included in your budget. BEC Fab Lab and your mentor business can offer the use of their equipment to aid manufacture. For example 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC machining but it is expected that the work will largely be you own. (Bare in mind 3D printing large objects is expensive.) There is a list of Fab Lab equipment at www.becfablab.org . Your Robot will: 1. Be in view throughout but controlled remotely from behind a start and finish line specified on the layout plan. 2. Have to stay within the designated 3mx3m flat floor area (marked out with masking tape.)

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Moon  Rover  Bot  design  brief.  

Background  

There  are  many  applications  where  a  Remote  Operated  Vehicles  (ROV)  or  Robots  are  used  in  dangerous  or  inaccessible  environments  to  carry  out  important  tasks.  They  have  been  used  on  the  moon,  on  Mars  and  for  bomb  disposal.  Tasks  could  include  negotiating  obstacles,  inspection,  remote  

tooling,  sorting,  picking  and  placing,  segregating  and  resizing.  Space  exploration  will  almost  certainly  require  3D  printed  components  made  and  assembled  by  Robots  in  space.  You  are  asked  to  help  in  developing  prototypes  for  this  mission.    

Brief:  

Your  team  are  tasked  to  design  and  make  a  prototype  Moon  Rover  Bot  to  perform  a  set  range  of  

tasks.  You  will  be  given  a  budget  of  £500  and  your  team  will  mentored  by  engineering  experts.    A  simulated  moon  surface  has  been  designed  by  BEC  Fab  Lab  and  you  will  be  given  a  scale  plan  and  photographs  of  this.  The  competition  will  be  judged  at  the  competition  judging  event  at  the  Lakes  

College  on  Thursday  27th  February.  You  will  be  able  to  choose  a  business  to  work  with  your  team  at  the  launch  and  mentoring  event  on  Tuesday  7th  October.  

Your  Robot  will  be  marked  against  a  scoring  schedule  (below)  and  the  winner  will  be  the  team  with  the  highest  score.  In  the  event  of  a  draw  time  taken  to  negotiate  the  course  will  be  taken  into  

account  and  will  decide  the  winner.  Time  to  complete  the  course  will  be  limited  to  5  minutes  per  team.  

It  is  expected  that  you  will  use  off  the  shelf  components  and  control  equipment  however  credit  will  be  given  for  teams  that  show  a  high  level  of  innovation,  in-­‐  house  design  and  manufacture.  Lap  tops,  

tablets,  phones,  radio  transmitters  etc.  will  be  classed  as  borrowed  and  will  not  be  included  in  your  budget.  

BEC  Fab  Lab  and  your  mentor  business  can  offer  the  use  of  their  equipment  to  aid  manufacture.  For  example  3D  printing,  laser  cutting  and  CNC  machining  but  it  is  expected  that  the  work  will  largely  be  

you  own.  (Bare  in  mind  3D  printing  large  objects  is  expensive.)  There  is  a  list  of  Fab  Lab  equipment  at  www.becfablab.org.  

Your  Robot  will:  

1. Be  in  view  throughout  but  controlled  remotely  from  behind  a  start  and  finish  line  specified  on  the  layout  plan.    

2. Have  to  stay  within  the  designated  3mx3m  flat  floor  area  (marked  out  with  masking  tape.)  

                                                                                             

   

3. Pick  up  3D  printed  space  station  building  blocks  held  in  a  250mmx250mmx40mm  high  open  

top  plywood  container  and  lay  the  first  3  foundation  blocks  of  a  moon  building.  4. Unload  the  building  blocks  from  the  container  and  lay  three  foundation  blocks  in  the  marked  

area.  

5. Move  back  to  the  start/finish  line  with  the  rock  negotiating  around,  or  over  the’  moon  craters’.    

Project  management:  

Your  team  will  have  to  provide:  

1. A  plan  of  how  you  managed  your  time  between  launch  and  final  judging.  

2. Supporting  sketches,  drawings,  circuit  diagrams  and  design  details.  3. Evidence  of  budgeting  and  costs.  4. A  short  progress  report  to  the  project  co-­‐ordinator  by  Friday  14th  November  and  another  by  

Friday  16th  January.  

 

Marking  scheme:  

The  following  criteria  will  be  used  to  determine  the  winner:  

1. Fitness  for  purpose  (50%)  a) Remote  control  (15%)  b) Collecting,  segregate  and  returning  moon  rock  (20%)  

c) Travel  within  the  designated  area,  negotiating  the  craters  and  crossing  the  finish  line  (15%)      

2. Innovation,  quality  of  design  and  manufacture  (25%)    

 3. Project  management  (25%)  

a) Time  management  (5%)  

b) Supporting  sketches,  drawings,  circuit  diagrams  and  design  details.  (10%)  c) Evidence  of  budgeting  and  costs  management.  (5%)  d) Progress  reports  (5%)  

 

Judging:  

                                                                                             

   

There  will  be  a  panel  of  three  independent  judges  with  world  class  expertise  in  ROV’s  who  will  score  

the  event.  Their  decision  will  be  final.  

 

Prize:  

The  winning  team  will  have  the  opportunity  to  talk  by  radio  to  astronauts  on  the  European  Space  Station.  There  will  be  an  exciting  surprise  team  prize  also.