The Virginia Tech Lunabotics Team is a senior design project tasked to build an excavating robot for submission into the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition. At competition, the robot will have fifteen minutes to traverse the play field and excavate simulated lunar regolith. The collected regolith must then be deposited into a collection bin. The team to deposit the most regolith will be determined the winner.
This year’s team is competing in the competition for the second straight year. Their project, named T-REX (Telerobotic Regolith EXcavator), is a culmination of the design and analysis of eleven undergraduate engineering seniors. Seven of these students are aerospace engineers lead by Dr. Kevin Shinpaugh, and four of the students are mining and minerals engineers guided by Dr. Erik Westman.
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