Exploratory Robotics
University
Course
VVM
Sponsor
Kennedy Space Center Swampworks, Jetpack Aviation Inc.
NASA Ames: TBD under NASA Ames Academic Mission Support Contract
NASA Houston: TBD Co-Development Research
NASA Ames: TBD under NASA Ames Academic Mission Support Contract
NASA Houston: TBD Co-Development Research
Goals
To create, design, and test build jetpacks, robotic landing systems, exoskeletons, and autonomous vehicles to support exploration of extreme environments on Earth, the Moon, and Mars, with multi-disciplinary professionals, DARPA, and NASA scientists and engineers.
Issues
Personal propulsion and air vehicle design; prototyping of protective exoskeletons, integration of wearable displays, landing of personnel and vehicles on harsh terrain, impacts of extreme environments including heat, cold, dust, radiation, and low gravity, muscle resistance training for deep space travel, disability mobility assistance, vehicle/personnel take-off and landing safety engineering, automatic injury detection, extraterrestrial exploration.
Tools and Methods
Personal Propulsion Devices and Air-Vehicles
Engine Design and Performance
Advanced Flight Controls
Acoustics
Advanced Electrical Power
Display Design
Human Systems Integration (HSI)
Design and prototyping of exoskeletons and suit integration
Human-Robot Interaction
Biomechanical Design
Desired Majors
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Architechture
Biology
Biomedical Engineering
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Engineering
Sponsor
Kennedy Space Center Swampworks, Jetpack Aviation Inc.
NASA Ames: TBD under NASA Ames Academic Mission Support Contract
NASA Houston: TBD Co-Development Research
NASA Ames: TBD under NASA Ames Academic Mission Support Contract
NASA Houston: TBD Co-Development Research