Team RASC-AL's Works on Proposal for the NASA Competition

Lately, the team has been working on prototyping for the senior design project. Leading up to March 7th, we have been working tirelessly on research and developing our proposal for the NASA competition. We held weekly meetings with SDSU and CETYS, and they even came to visit us here on campus. We discussed ideas and research findings and then which direction to head for new research topics and calculations to perform, all for the benefit of our system. CETYS has been a huge help, and we would not have been able to make the proposal as sophisticated as it is without them. Very soon we will find out if NASA is selecting us to present our proposal in their facilities in Florida. This is a prototype of our system. It is a movable platform that can accurately aim a camera + laser using stepper motors. It is supposed to prototype the object tracking and power beaming concept for the RASC-AL paper. Here is our unfinished rover for the project. We are attaching a solar panel array to it so we can fire the laser at it, and track the rover as it moves, ensuring it stays powered the whole time.