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2023 Spring LSIC - ARMADAS Poster-Final

The ARMADAS project demonstrates autonomous assembly of digital materials and structures using robotic assemblers. This provides automation technologies that could meet long-term infrastructure needs in space, such as constructing habitats. Project demonstrations include a small satellite payload that automatically assembles primary structures like a small habitat module or array in space. The key idea is discrete programmable metamaterials composed of modular building blocks that can be engineered for scalable, automated assembly through physical error correction. An example is ultralight lattice materials for aerospace that could be manufactured with high precision, repeatability and throughput.

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2023 Spring LSIC - ARMADAS Poster-Final

The ARMADAS project demonstrates autonomous assembly of digital materials and structures using robotic assemblers. This provides automation technologies that could meet long-term infrastructure needs in space, such as constructing habitats. Project demonstrations include a small satellite payload that automatically assembles primary structures like a small habitat module or array in space. The key idea is discrete programmable metamaterials composed of modular building blocks that can be engineered for scalable, automated assembly through physical error correction. An example is ultralight lattice materials for aerospace that could be manufactured with high precision, repeatability and throughput.

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Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive

Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS)


NASA’s Ames Research Center
PE: Christine Gregg | [email protected]
PI: Kenny Cheung | [email protected] National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Autonomous Lunar Infrastructure


To meet the needs of future deep space exploration, NASA is interested in large-scale hardware systems in the
agency’s thrust areas of solar power, communications, habitats and science interests. Scalable in-space
assembly of physical systems is critical to massless exploration and in-space reliance goals. The ARMADAS
project demonstrates autonomous assembly of digital materials and structures. This provides automation
technologies with potential for meeting long duration and deep space infrastructure needs, such as construction
and maintenance of long duration spaceport, surface infrastructure, and habitat scale systems. Project
demonstrations to date include a system that can fit into a small satellite-sized payload, which automatically
assembles into primary structures, such as a small habitat module or array/antenna, using onboard robotic
assemblers.
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/projects/armadas

Discrete Programmable Metamaterials


These materials are composed of a finite set of types of modules as building
blocks, with macro material properties that depend on the arrangement of
these building blocks within the material. Modular and reconfigurable
construction with reusability and interchangeability of components have been
appreciated throughout technological history. The key philosophical idea
behind discrete programmable metamaterials is that these systems can be
engineered to be highly scalable and automated, through physical error
correction mechanisms (similar to digital communication and computation
algorithms). An example of general applications of this exponential
manufacturing strategy is extremely high performing (specific strength and
stiffness) ultralight lattice materials and structural systems that could find
broad applications in aerospace systems.

Ultra-light Composite Materials


We show meso-scale, ultra-light (5.8 mg/cm3) fiber reinforced polymer
composite lattice structures reversibly assembled from building blocks,
manufactured with best-practice high-precision, high-repeatability, and high-
throughput processes. Chopped glass fiber-reinforced polymer
(polyetherimide) lattice materials produced with this method display absolute
stiffness (8.41 MPa) and strength (19 kPa) typically associated with metallic
hollow strut microlattices at similar mass density, and relative stiffness
behavior exceeds all previously published examples of ultra-light materials.
Additional benefits such as strain recovery, discrete damage repair with
recovery of original stiffness and strength, and ease of modeling are
demonstrated.

Gregg et al. doi.org/10.1002/adem.201800213

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