The focus of the blog is changing. I mentioned that I rotate through projects. It is time to focus more on robotics, specifically the NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge.
In June 2012 NASA ran a
Centennial Challenge competition at Worcster Polytechnic Institute. This concept for the
competition was a robot on the Moon or Mars retrieving samples. Its tasks were:
- Obtain a pre-cached sample
- Search for other interesting samples
- Return all samples to a landing platform
I considered entering but abandoned the effort for personal and technical reasons. I am going to use the competition guidelines in the development of a robot. I believe the challenge will be repeated and am working now to overcome the technical issues. I will be sharing the effort on my
web site. I am starting with a high-level analysis and dropping down to more details as that proceeds.
On this blog I will keep some notes on what has been updated on the project and provide some running commentary on the effort.
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