Conceptual Design of a Mars Rover-Copter for Mars Exploration using Simulation

Abstract

The development of the Mars rover-copter is to explore the Mars planet and look for ancient existence of life without human interaction which is completely autonomous. The designing was performed and AutoCAD and structural analysis of the rover-copter was performed on ANSYS. The material used for the whole Rover-Copter was Aluminum 7075, for the joints was AISI 1045, and for the propellers was epoxy carbon fibre. After achieving the objectives of the mission, the Rover-Copter was tested under the structural, and loading analysis.

keywords: Autonomy; Mars Rover-Copter; Robotic Arm; Rocker-bogie; Structural Analysis