Into Orbit - Future Engineers

Future Engineers - Into Orbit Project Challenge
The Future Engineers Team is developing a modular, deployable, autonomous defense system to protect Into Orbit missions, in space and on planet outposts, from direct and indirect threats.
The Future Engineers - Expeditionary Defense System (FE-EDS) will utilize mesh sensor technology, artificial intelligence and autonomous robotic platforms to provide persistent intelligent, surveillance and reconnaissance (Persistent ISR) capability from subsurface to space.
Expeditionary Defense System
Requirements
- Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)
- Rapid Response
- Continuous Intelligence and Verification
- Mobile Redundant Operations Nodes (Decentralized Mesh)
Components
- Autonomous Space Defense Vehicle (Robotics)
- Intelligent Mission Management and Tasking (AI)
- Expeditionary Sensor Grid Nodes (IoT)
- Tactical Defense Simulator and Trainer (Game / AI)
- Autonomous Space Reconnaissance Vehicle (Robotics Tracks)
Prototype Testing
FOE Penetration
- Train IMMT to identify FOE (TDST, IMMT) - e.g. Friend ASRV will send codes to ESG nodes, FOE will not.
- Identify FOE Simulation (TDST, ESG, IMMT)
- Deploy ASDV (IMMT, ASDV)
- ASDV marks home coordinates (ESG, ASDV)
- ASDV moves to FOE coordinates (ESG, ASDV)
- ASDV captures FOE (ASDV)
Projects
Autonomous Space Defense Vehicle (ASDV)
- Interception / Intervention
- Mobile sensor data acquisition
- Autonomous Safety Protocol
Engineer: RC
Intelligent Mission Management and Tasking AI (IMMT)
- Friend or Foe intrusion determination
- Coordinate instructions to ESG, ASDVs
- Responses can include deploying ASDVs for rescue or intervention
- IMMT can broadcast instructions to nodes on ESG for containment, evacuation, ...
- Assimilate directives, Friend or Foe models from TDST and instructions for response
Engineer: GM
Expeditionary Sensor Grid (ESG)
- Develop Sensor Node (2x2, Sensor Tower)
- Needs to be mobile
- Needs to communicate with both IMMT, ASDVs
- Needs to scan all activity and send to IMMT for Friend Foe
- Needs to give location data to IMMT, ASDVs
Engineer: BF
Tactical Defense Simulator and Trainer (TDST)
- Simulate EDS Code verification - FOE
- Friend or FOE - invader broadcasts code
- ESG gets code and sends to IMMT
- ESG receives instructions from IMMT
- ESG sends instructions to ASDV
- ASDVs responds sends information to ESG
- ESG sends information to IMMT
- IMMT determines course of action
- Containment
- Evacuation
Engineer: QM
Autonomous Space Reconnaissance Vehicle (ASRV)
- Basic Mindstorms driving base and sensor rig. We will use ASRVs to test the EDS.
- Send Codes to ESG for Friend identification.
Engineer(s): KL, ML
Roadmap
October 2018
- Project Workshop (10/19)
- Task 1 (10/26)
November 2018
- No class on 11/2
- Task 2 (11/9)
- Task 3 (11/16)
- No class on 11/23
- Task 4 (11/30)
December 2018
- Task 5 (12/7)
- Task 6 (12/14)
- Tasks 7-8 (12/21) (11:30 - 1:30)
January 2019
- No class on 1/4
- Integration Testing 1 (1/11)
- Integration Testing 2 (1/18)
- Integration Testing 3 (1/25)
February 2019
- FE-EDS Demo Phase 1 (2/1) (11:30 - 1:30)
- Data Logging (2/8)
- Data Logging (2/15)
- Data Logging (2/22)
March 2019
- FE-EDS Phase 2 Project Workshop (3/1) (11:30 - 1:30)
- ... (3/8)
- Pi Day Belated (Applied Geometry) (3/15)
- ... (3/22)
- ... (3/29)
April 2019
- No class on 4/5
- ... (4/12)
- No class on 4/19
- No class on 4/26
May 2019
- ... (5/3) (11:30 - 1:30)
- ... (5/10)
- ... (5/17)
- No class on 5/24
- ... (5/31)
June 2019
- ... (6/7) (11:30 - 1:30)
- Last Day 6/14