Portal:Picorover

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The PicoRover is a ball-like rover that could be used on the moon. See the technology behind the Picorover in the Picorover Background section. There is also a Youtube demostration here.

Purpose edit
To provide embedded technologies to the Rover Group in order to reduce as much as possible the final Rover size, consumption and weight. The Picorover group is an UPC university sponsored group, we are able to develop subsystems, components, PCBs, microstrip antennas, etc. for other groups if required.
Overview edit
Technology behind. Background Picorover status report Build a PicoRover by your own
Open tasks edit
Unmanned vehicle mission management In progress --Raulcs 12:15, 1 August 2009 (EDT) USB VDIP2 to UART test Hold --Raulcs 12:15, 9 August 2009 (EDT) Review Picorover wiki documentation In progress --Petilo 11:14, 10 March 2009 (EDT) PicoSAR first tests In progress --Enric 06:42, 24 March 2009 (EDT) CAN-Do widgets test Hold --Enric 18:37, 2 July 2009 (EDT) Autonomous algorithm in eZ430 board In progress --Joshua 18:39, 1 August 2009 (EDT) FPGA Lunar Laner programming and simulation In progress --Petilo 19:21, 24 November 2009 (EDT)
Pages
This list show which pages are part of Portal:Picorover:

News edit
2009-01-30. The Picorover Group portal has been created. 2009-02-12. Picorover1.3degrees functional allocation completed. 2009-02-13. Requirements to be hold until the next validation. 2009-02-20. Founded suppliers of material for Picorover. 2009-02-23. Founded RF receivers for Picorover uplink. 2009-02-26. Picorover1.3degrees feasibility study completed. 2009-03-04. System configuration completed. 2009-03-10. Picorover group completed. 2009-03-24. nano-Radar (PicoSAR) study completed. 2009-03-26. PicoSAR build done. 2009-04-15. Picorover Demo1.3degrees completed. 2009-05-09. Material commanded for Picorover and 10 CAN-Do boards. 2009-05-21. New Transceiver Test completed. 2009-05-30. Two CAN-Do widgets builded. 2009-06-23. eZ430 board tested. See report. 2009-07-24. Thrust controller prototype done with eZ430 and servos/Stepper motor. 2009-07-27. Shield vacuun test and thermal+TX test done and validated. 2009-10-14. New 75.2 grams shield presentation. 2009-12-06. Android powered HTC magic phone inside in a 5 inches PicoRover. 2009-12-10. PicoRover sand-box test done. 2010-01-10. A virtual PicoRover inside Second Life now available.
Team members edit
Joshua Tristancho (Group leader) Enric Fernandez (Hardware matrix) Raul Cuadrado (Software matrix) Andres Petilo (Quality Manager) Juan Martínez (Moon2.0 simulator) Victor Kravchenko (Propulsion) Raquel González (System matrix) Marta Jurado (Quality Control) Rojer Jove (Propulsion)
Current activities and details edit
Picorover1degree Tristancho's drafts. See Picorover in action and the Stability test Picorover1.3degrees Slope test and with spikes Picorover rolling up the hill. The PicoRover in the virtual world VRML 2.0 Vacuum and thermal tests: Test1 Test1a Test2 Test3a Test3b Android powered HTC magic inside a Picorover demo Picorover2degrees Not accomplish with GLXP. See the Open Space Exploration Journal interview Balloon launch cancelled December 19, 2009