PRE2020 4 Group5

Team:

Members	Student ID	Faculty	E-mail
Ive Harzing	1325094	AP	i.harzing@student.tue.nl
Tim Kolen	1311506	AP	t.kolen@student.tue.nl
Peter Duel	1236313	ME	p.m.duel@student.tue.nl
Quentin Missinne	1435957	ME	q.missinne@student.tue.nl
Johan van Tien	1455788	ME	f.j.m.v.tien@student.tue.nl

Topic:

USEr's:

(TBD)

USE:

(to be edited)

User: Space agencies (NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos) astro-biologists

Society:

(To be edited) Society: Satisfying our curiosity primarily: scientists Long term: Everyone

Enterprise:

(to be edited) Enterprise: Space agencies Governmental: NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos) Commercial: SpaceX, Blue Origin

astrophysicists

Project Plan:

Milestones:

(still to be edited)

• Create Milestones
• Develop plan around these milestones
• Research:
  • Research previous/planned missions to Titan
  • Voyager 1&2
  • Cassini-Huygens 1997-2005
• Dragonfly 2027-2034
• How we plan on getting the tech into orbit of titan (or landing on titan)
• General space and orbital research
• Potential scanner types:
• For Land rover:
  • Thermal sensors
  • GPR system (ground penetrating radar)
• For satellite:
  • simple scanning software (to map surface and activity)
• How thoroughly programmed the system will be.
• How much of this can be realised and hand in
• potential deliverable programs/software
• what would be used to create software.
• Conditions of life
• Deliverable:
• For technical (physical rover):
  • RC cars of sorts hooked up with sensors which we can show the use of certain sensors for life detection (thermal and radiation sensors).
• Program/software:
  • Show the program code and its effect on a simple arduino most notably:
  • goal based decision making
  • self learning system
  • mapping software
• (Possible combination of both)
• Final Video:
  • No further addition to this general goal as it is simply a presentation of what we have achieved.

• Make working camera mount with live feedback
• Reach xx% effectiveness in recognizing points of interest
• (Rover) Make virtual environment in which the set up can be tested (looking for patterns in a dynamic space)
  • Subgoal: make database of all kind of surfaces found on Titan
  • Subgoal: determine physics on the surface of Titan and how that impacts the movement of the rover.
• (Satellite) Determine ideal orbit (and adjustment propulsion) for the system
• Think of ideal camera resolution, geostatic orbit (is that possible for moons?)
• Design system to fit in a standard rocket (pretty high goal I know, but might be a fun thing to look into)

• decide on either a rover or a satellite

• For rover:
  • Investigated all kinds of surfaces that are on Titan
  • Rover is able to travel across the surface that has been chosen to be investigated
  • a drill has been designed to obtain underground samples
  • an energy source that last longer than the calculated mission length has been chosen (RTG for instance)
  • the rover design fits into the rocket that will transport the rover to Titan
  • the rover can be located from earth
  • the rover is able to communicate with earth at certain defined intervals
• For satellite:
  • The satellite can get and stay into orbit
  • The satellite is able to establish its distance from the surface of Titan
  • The satellite is able to obtain video in a resolution high enough to resolve objects that are 1 m long (min length can be adjusted)
  • the satellite is able to obtain a heat profile of Titan in high resolution
  • the satellite is able to communicate with earth at certain defined intervals

• looking for specific things of ‘life’ instead of thoroughly searching
• For the rover, material study has to be done
• Simulation with the program
• Communication with planet earth - all the time or only when necessary