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TerraROVER Manufacturing Scale-Up


A capstone senior design team of Boston University students (Daiyu Lian, Dheeraj Nistala, Ethan Wert, Josette Wynn) in the Mechanical Engineering program collaborated with Prof Caleb Farny (Boston University, GLOBE Mission EARTH), Geoffrey Bland (NASA Goddard, AREN Project), and Lisa Ogiemwonyi (Wayne RESA, AREN Project) to improve the TerraROVER’s manufacturing process. The goal of the project was to reduce the manufacturing complexity and time involved with the manufacturing and assembly processes. As it stands, the TerraROVER takes about 13 hours to produce, and as a result, demand is much higher than supply. Our team has reduced production time from approximately 13 hours to under 3.5 hours. This was done by replacing several 3D-printed parts with laser-cut parts and by simplifying the design and streamline the assembly process. They further simplified manufacturer assembly times by designing a kit to be assembled by the user.
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News origin: Boston University School of Education



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