Thumbling's Travels | Make Sense Out of Mars
Team Updates
You can find the code used in this project here
Our proposal for the Space Apps Challenge v0.3 is now live!
Changes: Added documentation, Autocad sketches of our antennas and optimization of our antenna grid.
our signal. We did a simulation of our system using this setup.
Uploaded the alpha 0.1 code for the MLS Positioning system.
Release Note: - Initial Commit
- Added Comments and Documentation
Gitlab link for the documentation draft
The idea...
The traditional German fairy tale “Thumbling’s Travels” by Brothers Grimm talks about a tiny and weak child that sets into the world to seek his destiny. He is given nothing but a needle to protect himself in a hostile environment where threats lurk behind each step, yet he survives at last after facing tons of dangers. Astronauts will begin their journey from Earth and finally, miles away from their homes, they will reach a hostile environment like the surface of Mars. Their only equipment will be the one it will be provided to them, before they leave and hence giving them tools that will be useful during their mission, will be the key for their survival. How could one survive though, if he has no clue of his position?
Having landed, the astronauts are going to complete walks around the planet. At first, moving in the near proximity of the mother-ship might be enough, but as the time pasts,the astronauts will need to walk farther, especially if more and more are to arrive to create a permanent colony. Our goal is to provide a safe route for the astronauts, that will be the first to go to Mars, to complete walks miles away from the mother-ship. In order to achieve that, a network of small antennas is to be established by the astronauts. They will carry a transceiver, that transmits a pulse and the antennas will receive it and respond. Using various techniques, he will know his exact location or at least the distance from the nearest antenna. Hence, even if they have no visual contact with mothership or the antennas, they can find their way back, under difficult circumstances like a night walk or during a sandstorm that may occur.
In the link below you can find a detailed documentation describing our project thoroughly:
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