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project undertaking is fine however the project assumes this is a new design which
shouldn’t be as there are a multitude of rovers being built.
We never assumed it to be a new design, we assumed it to be a new design based on Mars
Rover Challenge in the past. Thousands of Participants around the world participate in the
NASA’s Human Exploration Challenge. The students from Hindustan Institute of technology
Is one of the Under-grad students among the single digit number of teams from India to get
selected and participate in the Human Exploration Space Challenge. The Design Constraints
and The Tasks carried out by the teammates who drive the Vehicle are already pre-
constructed by NASA’S competition Guidelines.
Our present design is simply complying to the rules and regulations of NASA’s expectation.
Therefore in-order to import some innovative ideas as well as maintain the guidelines. We
have taken inspiration from many automobiles and bi-cycles and imported some of the
mechanism in our design.
Our design is the only design, for a four-wheel power drive system and four wheel steering
mechanism, with steering mechanisms such as, differential gear steering setup and the
traditional Ackerman steering set-up for both the pilots. In simple words, imagine a truck
with multi-axle and multi wheel steering, in a bicycle.
And to support the conditions of mars, we did include the Double wishbone system as our
suspension. This double wishbone system is a best choice for our rover challenge. It might be
a heavier suspension system but a good one, as it takes up less vertical space it prevents
camber changes over time. the negative camber can be done too for the wheel.
Last but not the least, in-order to make it lighter and stronger, we are choosing Aluminium
and Carbon-fibre reinforced Composite for our project. The cost might be high for
fabrication, but it will make our design one of the load bearing vehicles as we do consider the
mars conditions, and non-metals like carbon-fibre could not degrade easily.
We are using aluminium reinforced with the carbon fibre as, we would not want the risk of
Failure of breaking during testing, and main reason to cut the costs.
Literature Review for the above claims are mentioned below:
1. E. Abhilash and M.A. Joseph, “Carbon Fibre Reinforced Aluminium Matrix Composite:
Development & Evaluation of Mechanical Behaviours”, Materials Science and Technology (MS&T)
2008 October 5-9, 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2. Prof Mr. Aniket Kolekar, Mr. Sumir Mulani, Mr. Ashutosh Nerkar, Prof.Saurabh Borchate,
“Review on Steering Mechanism”, IJSART - Volume 3 Issue 4 –APRIL 2017.
3. "Lunar Shelter/Rover Conceptual Design and Evaluation," NASA CR-61049, Nov. 1964.
2. Consideration of Martian atmosphere is not done
The consideration for the Martial atmosphere is not done because the rover is only driven in
the simulated Martian terrains which are created in the earth atmosphere but to strengthen our
ORR report we are working on the dynamic analysis by using the Martian atmospheric
conditions.
Although the theoretical Conditions of Mars is done as per the operating conditions of the
past robotic rover’s operations on the surface of planet mars. Consideration of Planet mars’
condition can be done only if the live model is available. ( this will be explained elaborate in
the question of lab analysis). The simulation of vehicle as a mars exploration rover on mars
as well as earth, can be carried out at a computational scale, but the right resources is not
available for the students in Hindustan institute of technology and science.
3. Benchmarking and lab analysis : how will it be done?
Part 1
Bench Marking is a process of measuring the performance of a company’s products.
1. The benchmarking for the HERC – 2023, Human Exploration Rover Challenge is Done according
to HERC – 2022 From Hindustan Institute Of Technology and Science.
Comparison of 2022 to 2023 HERC Prototypes.
Competitive Bechmarking.
Competitive Benchmarking.
2022 2023
2 wheel drive system 4 wheel drive system
Chain Drive System Gear Drive System (Chain Less)
More weight (Heavy) Less Weight due to usage of Carbon Fibre
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Seats like normal auto mobile cushion Cupped Racing like seats, keeping astronauts in
mind.
Without proper Analysis, Fabrication was Static analysis is carried out, dynamic analysis
started is carried out, Several Scientific papers are
studied, and designs are also made simple for
Easy operations. The Fabrication will be only
carried out only if the FEM analysis of the
Designs are carried out Properly.
Number Of Team-mates is very less, because of The number of Team-Mates Working on the
which 2022 is an unsuccessful project for project is more, because of which we are able to
operation of the rover. give the tasks correctly and finish off the tasks.
We have designations such as 2 designers, one
As there was less members in the team, there of the designers is well versed in Computational
was a tremendous amount of task on each of the Analysis. So therefore 1 FEA Analyst.
team members. As a result of which they ended
up wasting a lot of money and were pushed to the Design of the Rover involved 4 people.
choose plywood material for the wheels of Captain, Vice-Captain, Designer and Chief
rover, which is an ultimate end of the project. Mechanic, and the designs are shown to the
team members.
There was no maintenance-based literature, the Maintenance-based literature is well studied and
project of 2021 to 2022 was done on a mere the rover developed for 2023 competition, is
participation basis. Since it was the first time the maintained under good care. This idea of the
competition happened the maintenance rover will be a paved way for good start-up idea.
knowledge was very less. Of chainless quad-cycle used for mountainous
terrains.
Functional Benchmarking.
To functional benchmarking, we are the results of dynamic analysis of the wheel. Using ANSYS
STATIC STRUCTURAL. Using the dynamic loads we have considered it to be operational. The
report of the analysis files is found in appendix sections of the report produced before.
Part 2:
The lab analysis is already done for the rover, though it is not from our work, it is a collective
evidence from our literature review work done by our team. The actual lab analysis is the performance
during the competition, carried out.
Hove ever, the rover is calculated designed and tested at a computational level, there is limitation of
carrying out the experimental data as the timeline required for conducting sufficient experiments is
estimated to be around 6 months again, by which the competition time would cross.
In-case of an experimental demand, we would like to do a model for 1:10 sized model for our rover
and simulate it to different mars conditions on a scaled manner.
4. Software considerations are missing.
Software considered to be used for designing is
CATIA V5 2020, As the CATIA provides with various workbench such as , PART DESIGN
assembly design Welding workbench. For the precision designing of components of rover.
The CATIA is a best use for surfacing and sheet metalling too, which also makes fabricators
and drafters to access the files and 3-d models easily.
ANSYS WORKBENCH provides an easier interface for students to use it in analytical logics
of a structure or a fluid domain problem.
It is also easily available for students as a student version as well as a full version has a lot of
workbenches for the scientific tests carried out in a computational scale.
