PRE2017 3 Groep1

planning

26-02-2018 (end week 2)

Wouter

- research the current potatoe harvest techniques and robotics

- research current greenhouse technologies

Sjoerd

- research ideal air compositions for potatoes

Stefan

- research ideal temperature for potatoes

Aricia

- research the ground properties on mars (root growth, density, reaction on nutritions, etc.)

Máire

- research current sprinkler systems

- research ideal light intensity for potatoes and the situation on Mars

Thijs

- research current harvest processes of potatoes

- update the wiki

undivided

05-03-2018 (end week 3)

Wouter

- Start a simple model in matlab which takes the martian ground into account

Sjoerd

Stefan

- contact Cobbenhagen and Kuijpers with questions arised in week 2

Aricia

Màire

Thijs

undivided

- having finished an entire detailed planning for the rest of the project

12-03-2018 (end week 4)

Wouter

Sjoerd

Stefan

Aricia

Màire

Thijs

undivided

19-03-2018(end week 5)

Wouter

Sjoerd

Stefan

Aricia

Màire

Thijs

undivided

- project globally finished, such that only small changes have to be made

26-03-2018 (end week 6)

Wouter

Sjoerd

Stefan

Aricia

Màire

Thijs

undivided

- final presentation

Log

main task distribution

planning control: Máire

update model in matlab and simulink: Wouter

update wiki: Thijs

useful contacts

- Roy Cobbenhagen: potatoes - Wouter Kuijpers: tomatoes in greenhouses

Subject statement

problem statement

There is a mission going on to send a group of people to Mars for colonisation. When they are on Mars, it is important that they have enough recources to sustain. For food has to be tailed. As there is a limited amount of crew members in the first stage of this mission, it is favourable that as much work is done autonomous by rational agents. One of these things is the tailing and harvesting of food, like potatoes. This process is not yet fully autonomous.

Objective

the objective is to make a model in matlab and simulink for an autonomous controlled environment for potato harvest. This includes the harvesting and the planting of the potatoes at right times, as well as keeping the environment ideal for growth.

Aspects

- harvesting and planting robot

- greenhouse

- climate control

- water and nutrition supply

Users

The first users are the people that will be living on mars. The second hand users are the engineers and programmers designing and programming the robots.

User requirements

Because the resources on Mars are very limited and the robot has to be build in a way that it is very easy to maintain, if a robot breaks it must be repaered swiftly and efficient. Especially in the early stages of a Mars mission, the people might not have the required knowledge to make any complex modifications or repairs to the robot. This has to be taken in account when the robot is designed and because of this the robot has to be easy to repair and to change out parts. The climate differs on Mars compared to that of Earth so

Literature search

To start of our project we are doing a literature research. We divided the literature search into the following areas:

1) The conditions on mars (including the effects on aggro culture due to these conditions)

2) Robots and machinery that are already used in outher space

3) Farming robots that are already being used on earth

For all of these areas papers will be searched and a summary of the overall findings will be given with refrences to the found papers.

Mars conditions

- C. Leovy. “Weather and climate on Mars” (2001)

- F. Gifford Jr. “The Surface-Temperature Climate of Mars.” (1955)

- S. R. Lewis, et al. “A climate database for Mars” (1999)

- G.W. Wieger Wamelink, et al. “Can plants grow on mars and the Moon: A growth experiment on Mars and Moon soil simulants” (2014)

- M. Nelson, et al. “Integration of lessons from recent research for “Earth to Mars” life support systems (2006)

- S. Silverstone, et al. “Development and research program for a soil-based bioregenerative agriculture system to feed a four person crew at a mars base” (2003)

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- Journal of Climate. Jun2001, Vol. 14 Issue 11, p2430. 13p. 23 Graphs..... no access

- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Feb2018, Vol. 254, p99-110. 12p....... no access

- Climate Research. 2009, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p47-59. 13p. 7 Charts, 5 Graphs, 1 Map..... no access

- Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Oct2010, Vol. 40 Issue 10, p2036-2048. 12p. 1 Chart, 1 Graph..... no accesss

- Global Change Biology. Jan2007, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p169-183. 15p. 1 Diagram, 7 Graphs, 2 Maps..... (no access)

- James I. L. Morison,Michael D. "plant growth and climate change" (2006)..... (no access)

- R. RötterS.C. van de Geijn. "Climate Change Effects on Plant Growth, Crop Yield and Livestock". pp 651–681 (1999).... (no access)

- Angela T. Moles. "Global patterns in plant height"- Journal of ecology. (2009).... access

Potato

- Adam H. Sparks. "Climate change may have limited effect on global risk of potato late blight" - Global change biology (2014).... (no access)

- Bakhtiyor Pulatov. "Modeling climate change impact on potato crop phenology, and risk of frost damage and heat stress in northern Europe"- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Pages 281-292. (2015).... (no access)

- D.T. Westermann “Nutritional requirements of potatoes” (2005)

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- Van Ittersum, M.K. & Scholte, K. Potato Res (1992) 35: 365. https://doi-org.dianus.libr.tue.nl/10.1007/BF02357593

Existing farming technology

- Tillet, N. (2003). Robots on the farm. The industrial robot, 30(5), 396. Retrieved February 23, 2018, from [https://search-proquest-com.dianus.libr.tue.nl/docview/216987757/fulltextPDF/F545A1E016954F45PQ/1?accountid=27128 ] -

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Robots and machinery used in outer space

- Rećko, M., Tołstoj-Sienkiewicz, J., & Turycz, P. (2017). Versatile soil sampling system capable of collecting, transporting, storing and preliminary onboard analysis for mars rover analogue10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.260.59 [Robotic arm for Mars Rover] Link to article

- Czaplicki, P., Recko, M., & Tolstoj-Sienkiewicz, J. (2016). Robotic arm control system for mars rover analogue. Paper presented at the 2016 21st International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, MMAR 2016, 1122-1126. 10.1109/MMAR.2016.7575295 [Soil sampling] Link to article

- Sakib, N., Ahmed, Z., Farayez, A., & Kabir, M. H. (2017). An approach to build simplified semi-autonomous mars rover. Paper presented at the IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON, 3502-3505. 10.1109/TENCON.2016.7848707 [Making a Mars Rover semi-automatic] Link to article

- Wong, C., Yang, E., Yan, X. -., & Gu, D. (2017). Adaptive and intelligent navigation of autonomous planetary rovers-A survey. Paper presented at the 2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2017, 237-244. 10.1109/AHS.2017.8046384 [Intelligent navigation] Link to article

- Parness, A., Abcouwer, N., Fuller, C., Wiltsie, N., Nash, J., & Kennedy, B. (2017). LEMUR 3: A limbed climbing robot for extreme terrain mobility in space. Paper presented at the Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 5467-5473. 10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989643 [Robot with climbing arms (maybe possible to use for planting and harvesting] Link to article

- Garrido, S., Moreno, L., Martín, F., & Álvarez, D. (2017). Fast marching subjected to a vector field–path planning method for mars rovers. Expert Systems with Applications, 78, 334-346. 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.02.019 [Vector field-path planning] Link to article

- Scopus search link

Coaching Questions

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