A conjecture was transfigured to a brewing impulse to build a lunabot by motivating and disseminating words of Honorable Vice Chancellor of DTU,

Prof P.B Sharma urging his student fraternity to excel in the fields of research and development. NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, resurrecting its space endeavour, extrudes ideas and innovations from graduates and under graduates student teams from sundry of disciplines by organizing LUNABOTICS MINING COMPETITION annually at NASA SPACE KENNEDY CENTER, Florida USA. The competition seeks enthusiasts to design, build and dig the simulated lunar regolith under categorical constraints. NASAs Lunabotics Mining Competition is designed to promote the development of interest in space activities and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields. Under the esteem guidance of Honourable Vice Chancellor of DTU Prof P.B Sharma, we want to form a team in the college for achieving the stated aim and add to the legacy of research and development that DTU has pioneered over last seven decades.

STATEMENT OF PROPOSAL
We endeavour to enstructure a lunabot under the provisioned constraints capacitated by NASA. The competition urges engineering minds to make an autonomous or telerobotically governed robot which can excavate and dump a simulant of lunar dirt called regolith in a stipulated time frame. The robot has visual and auditory isolation from the operator. The venue of the event is NASA SPACE KENNEDY CENTER, Florida USA.

The expected budget for the lunabot competition is 12 lakhs INR, detailed analysis of which is presented hereafter. We envisage a favour of 40% of the budget, amounting to about 5 lakhs INR, from the behest of college administration. This grant will help us to build the lunabot and the rest 60% of capital including travelling, transportation and miscellaneous will be accommodated by private sponsorship.

TEAM STRUCTURE
FACULTY ADVISOR
Prof N. S Raghava HOD, Computer Center K. Srinivas Assistant Prof., Mechanical Dept.

TEAM MEMBERS
Ashish Kumar
Mechanical engineering, 3rd year Work assigned: chassis integration, locomotion and excavation hardware, regolith study ashishkumar.kumar22@gmail.com

Arun Kumar Nauwhar

Information Technology, 3rd year Work assigned: sensors integration, software and networking arunchaudhary09@gmail.com

Peeyush
Mechanical Engineering,3rd year Work assigned: mechanical design and analysis of the lunabot, dumping hardware koolpeeyush@gmail.com

Shubham Verma
Electronics and Communication Engineering, 3rd year Work assigned: Electronics and electrical circuitry, control systems. shubham.dtu@gmail.com

Future Positives:
1. Autonomous Bots are field of interest in defense , surveillance and space exploration where humans accessibility is endangered or remote. 2. Commercially viable as there are companies that show keen interests in manufacturing future mining excavators for space programmes. 3. Advances in mining of lunar regolith have potential to contribute significantly to INDIAS ISRO 2020 space vision. 4. Helium 3 a compound present in abundance has been recognized as future fuel. 5. Gain in technical and theoretical knowledge. 6. It would be 1st Indian team from a well known institute DTU to participate in this competition. 7. The lunar excavators can also be used in coal mines where the coal bed is bit loose. 8. This participation will lay a platform for other university students to get encouraged and participate in similar competitions. 9. It will improve the awareness about space exploration in our nation.

BUDGET
SR.NO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 COMPONENTS TOTAL COST CHASSIS $1224 CATERPILLAR ARRANGEMENT $1958 LADDER ARRANGEMENT $1093 DUMPING ARRANGEMENT $1182 POWER SYSTEM $637 SENSOR $256 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM $612 ELECTRONICS $585 BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE $324 LUNAR PRACTICE ARENA $1012 PROTOTYPE MODEL $534 TRAVEL BY AIR (ROUND TRIP) $7778 FOODING AND LODGING FOR 10 $5000 DAYS WITH $100/NIGHT/PERSON SHIPPING OF LUNABOT $2778 MISCELLANEOUS $1000 TOTAL=$25973=RS11,68,786

Date: .

Department of Information Technology Delhi Technological University Letter of Approval

Approved to withdraw a sum of _____ Rupees from ________ account number for the purchase of the following:

S.no 1

Quantity Particulars 1

Purpose

Date

Amount Rs/-

Grand Total(INR)

Rs/-

The above payment has to be made to _______ As the above expenditure is more than Rs.30,000/- as per the Fast Track Procurement Procedure approved by the Hble V.C DTU, sanction for the payment is approved by the undersigned. The Bills for the products are enclosed in Page No. ____________________. . Hence a cheque of Rs. /- may be issued in favour of

Shubham Verma Team Leader

A.K. Sharma Sr A/C Officer-D

N.S.Raghava Faculty Advisor

K. Srinivas Faculty Advisor

Prof.P.B Sharma Vice Chancellor

Encl: detail of the bill for the above mentioned item

NOTESHEET
Subject: Purchases The Team wishes to withdraw a sum of Rs. /- towards the custom and clearance charges of the following products: Rs. /-

Total :

= Rs. /-

The above product has been purchased by the team for the Lockheed Martin Project and is placed in Optical Communications Lab, IT Dept, DTU. The payment has to be made to Interocean Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd. As per the Fast Track Procurement Procedure approved by the Hble V.C DTU the sanction for the expenditure of the included items is approved by the Team Captain, The Faculty Advisor and the Sr Accounts officer as the expenditure is more than Rs.30,000/-. The quotations of the above mentioned items are attached along with in page no. Kindly issue a cheque of Rs. /- in favour of _________________________.

N.S. Raghava K.Srinivas Faculty Advisor Team

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