NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Abstract

NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race, held annually in at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is an engineering design challenge that asks teams of student engineers to design a human-­‐powered vehicle capable of traversing a simulated lunar surface. However, there is an interesCng sCpulaCon in the design of the moonbuggy: it must be able to be transported in a 4x4x4 foot cube, echoing the design constraint faced by the engineers who built the Lunar Roving Vehicles used by the astronauts of the later Apollo missions. The vehicle in this proposal, Ocelot, designed by the Society of Women Engineers at Embry-­‐Riddle AeronauCcal University’s PrescoF campus, is intended to a contender in the 2014 Moonbuggy Race, and builds off of the ideas shared by veteran parCcipants of the Race as well as shoring up innovaCve ideas from the design team.

Authors

• Fortes, Estelle Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Taylor, Aaron Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Talerico, Caitlin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Chow, Jessica Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Turcios, Jessica Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Perry, Johnnie Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Beck, Joshua Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Martin-Gonzalez, Juana Cecilia Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Ferguson, Lisa Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Branscomb, Michaela Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Sabliny, Mo Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• VanSickle, Raeann Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Pearson, Sarah Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Dryer, Sierra Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Henney, Zach Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Haven, Brenda Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Keywords

• Aeronautical Vehicles
• Aerospace Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering