Lunar Landscaping: Designing a Berm-Building Robot for NASA Lunabotics

Abstract

The goal of the NASA Artemis missions are to establish long-term human presence on the moon. This year’s NASA Lunabotics competition tasks teams with building robots capable of traversing and landscaping in a simulated Lunar terrain to gather data on Lunar construction. The competition goal is to construct a robot capable of building a berm out of regolith simulant. A diagram of the competition, and of USR’s robot E.L.E is shown in Figure 1