Jaluro Organisation

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Everybody is welcome to give an input - but this is not for discussion (pls use for that the discussion section of this wikipage or use our frednet forum). The basic idea is tobi's rover concept - see the Rover Design Studies, but is not limited by that. It should easily extendable to a four wheel concept if we see that the design does not achieve our requirements. Keep in mind, that we all are working for a common goal and we finally want to see a frednet rover driving on the luna surface - it doesn't matter on which design idea it is based on. If you're interested in other rover developments within frednet, here some links:

• WRV1

Please refer to the Frednet Lunar Rover Guidelines for the general specifications.

Contents 1 Organisation 1.1 Building Guide 1.2 Basic Units 1.3 Development Process 1.3.1 Group Organisation 1.4 Team Budget 1.5 Projectmanagement Software 1.6 Interdepartmental Cooperation 1.7 Links 1.7.1 Internal 1.7.2 External

Organisation

We know what we want, so we need a plan and a road map to our destiny, la luna surface. In the first section, we will figure out, how and what we are going to do. It's this borring but neccessary organisational stuff.

There will be no "leader". Each taskforce is in charge of their commited task. Tobias will try to guide each taskforce to the common goal.

By the way, Jaluro is the acronym for Just another lunar rover.

Building Guide

Whatever we do, we shall keep this in our mind:

• Simple
• Flexible
• Durable
• Open Source
• Lightweight
• Teamwork
• Open Minded
• Communication
• Just do it

Basic Units

We have to find solutions for the following units:

• drive unit
• drive controller
• wheel design
• radio unit
• antenna
• camera hd
• camera nav
• camera plattform
• battery pack
• solar panels
• power management unit
• main controller
• rover body
• rover axle
• rover enclosure
• rover thermal insulation
• heater (*)
• software package

Development Process

The following list shall give us an overview over the required milestones, starting from nothing until partying.

1. Specifing - What (and how) do we want to archieve?
2. Analysing 1 - Enviromental Conditions, Resources,...
3. Respecifing 1 - Setting Priorities
4. Planning - Tasks, Milestones, Timetables, Resources, Manpower
5. Forming working pools - Using our talents and knowledge in the best way
6. Assignment of Tasks - Assume responsibillity
7. Mock Up
8. Prototyping 1
   1. Internal (Electronics)
      1. Power Module - Charger, Batteries, Solarpanel, Controller
      2. Drive Module - Drive Motor, Camera Motor (Pan,Tilt), Controller
      3. Visuallizing Module - HD Cam, Nav Cam, Processing
      4. Radio Module - Antenna, Wifimodule
      5. Maincontroller Module -Input - Output Controller, Monitoring
      6. Heating Module (*)
   2. External (Hardware)
      1. Wheels - Wheel/rim Design, Motor/Drive Attachment
      2. Axle/Transmission - Axle Design
      3. Enclosure - Body Design, Camera Plattform
      4. Thermal Insulation -Heatloss, Heatprotection, Coldprotection
      5. Assembly
   3. Processing (Software)
      1. Camera Data Processing
      2. Radio Communication
      3. Power Unit Monitoring - Monitoring, Switching, Wakeup
      4. Drive Control - Wheeldrives and Cameramotion
      5. Temperature Monitoring
      6. Central Processing - Watchdog, Input-Output Control
9. Prototype Testing -Capabilities, Extreme Enviromental Conditions, Endurance
   1. Module independent
   2. Module dependent
   3. Prototype assembled
10. Analysing 2 -Experience, Objectives, obtained Knowledge
11. Repecifing 2 and Improving - Based on Analysing Process
    1. Electronics
       1. Development /Improvement
       2. Testing
    2. Hardware
       1. Development / Improvement
       2. Testing
    3. Software
       1. Development / Improvement
       2. Testing
12. Rover assembly
    1. Rover Teststage 1
       1. Improvement of whatever is neccessary
    2. Rover Teststage 2
       1. Minor Adjustments
    3. Final Teststage
13. Put the Rover into a Rocket
14. Fly to Luna
15. Land on Luna
16. Drive like crazy
17. Win the GLXP
18. Drink a beer (or two) - this might be also done intermittend *
19. Party - at least a week

• Note: If it is not allowed to you to drink alkohol, all other drinks are good as well

Group Organisation

The group organisation will be a decentralized mamagement. Many tasks will overlap, an active teamwork is a must. Supporting each other with all needed information is a must. Each taskforce is responsible for their commited task and for team and public information work.

Team Budget

There is no Budget until now (Budget=0). We only have human resources and the part that everyone is willing to dispense. If we have big expenses, we have to find a solution for that. In the beginning, let us try to keep expenses as low as possible.

We might have to ask vendors / producers to donate equipement.

Projectmanagement Software

As soon as we are more advanced with the basic layouts, we will most probably to migrate to an adequate project management software like drproject, redmine,...

Interdepartmental Cooperation

For any matters concerning communication between Rover and Lander: Portal:Communications

For any matters concerning the Lunar Lander: Portal:Propulsion

For any matters concerning Visualisation: Imagery_Group

Links

If you find information your're refering to - add a link into the respective category.

Internal

Add here your links to internal relevant websites - please order them by topics Rover Guidelines

• Frednet Lunar Rover Guidelines

Other Rover Projects

• WRV1

External

Add here your links to external relevant websites - please order them by topics

Robots

• nBot -- a very interesting 2 wheel robot
• SRV 1 --maybe we can use the boards??

Portal:Jaluro