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Modeling Excavation, Site Preparation, and Construction of a Lunar Mining Base Using Robot Swarms

机译：使用机器人群对月球采矿基地的挖掘、场地准备和施工进行建模

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Development of a space economy will require identifying and mining critical resources that will minimize cost and energy usage. The Moon is one potential candidate. It is rich in iron, titanium, and silicon. Water is thought to exist in plentiful supplies in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the north and south pole of the Moon. Based upon these important findings, we are developing an energy model to determine the feasibility of developing a mining base on the Moon. This mining base extracts and principally exports water, titanium, steel, and aluminum. The Moon has been selected, as there are significant reserves of water theorized to exist at the permanently shadowed crater regions and there are significant sources of titanium, iron, and aluminum throughout the Moon's surface. The focus in this paper is to develop an energy model for ground preparation and construction of the base. The models developed account for excavation, clearing, and flattening of ground material in preparation for assembly of large-infrastructure to support the base, including the mass driver, roads, and rail-lines. In addition, the work will model the energy required for capturing and transporting for construction of the major structures on the base using local materials. Using these energy models, we will then be developing methods to coordinate hundreds of human workers and robots to perform all the excavation, site-preparation, and construction tasks to complete the base. In this paper, we focus on base construction and determine that power generation dominates in terms of base preparation needs. Beyond a certain size of mining base, power generation becomes the dominant factor, bigger than even transport of material by rail from the lunar south pole. Development of these energy models will be critical for us to determine the best locations to anchor and utilize a mining base to extract a series of raw materials for use in a space economy. Based on these studies, we identify that scalable power generation is a critical challenge that needs to be solved to permit large-scale mining and export of resources from the Moon.
机译：发展空间经济需要确定和开采关键资源，以最大限度地降低成本和能源使用。月球是一个潜在的候选者。它富含铁、钛和硅。人们认为，月球南北极的永久阴影区（PSR）有充足的水源。基于这些重要发现，我们正在开发一个能源模型，以确定在月球上开发采矿基地的可行性。这个采矿基地开采并主要出口水、钛、钢和铝。月球之所以被选中，是因为理论上认为在永久阴影的陨石坑区域存在大量的水资源，而且整个月球表面都有大量钛、铁和铝的来源。本文的重点是建立一个能量模型，用于地基处理和基地建设。开发的模型考虑了地面材料的挖掘、清理和平整，以准备组装大型基础设施，以支持基地，包括大规模的驱动器、道路和铁路线。此外，这项工作还将利用当地材料对基地主要结构施工所需的能量进行建模。利用这些能源模型，我们将开发方法，协调数百名人类工人和机器人，完成基地的所有挖掘、场地准备和施工任务。在本文中，我们关注基地建设，并确定发电在基地准备需求方面占主导地位。在一定规模的采矿基地之外，发电成为主导因素，甚至比从月球南极通过铁路运输材料还要大。这些能源模型的开发对于我们确定最佳位置、锚定和利用采矿基地、提取一系列用于空间经济的原材料至关重要。基于这些研究，我们发现可扩展发电是一个关键的挑战，需要解决，以允许大规模开采和从月球出口资源。

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