Conveyance, Filtering, and Feed System for Lunar Brickbot Technology Demonstrator for Landing Pad Construction

Our Brickbot conveyance system comprises of bucket drums and annbsp;electromagnetic sieving and filtering system mounted on a robotic mobility platform used for initial risk reduction test demonstrations. Anbsp;method to scoop the uncompacted top surface layer of lunar regolith is employed to depositnbsp;acquired regolith directly over the top of the robotrsquo;s shroud cover which is modified to act as an initial screen to filter out the largest rocks and material. An electromagnetic sieve/shaker assembly further filters the scooped regolith to particle grains of lt;70 microns before flowing feedstock into the feed hopper of the onboardnbsp;furnace for melting and forming bricks used for landing/launch pad construction, or for any planar surface such as roads and foundations.The beneficiation and movement methodology will be further developed for the regolith simulant sieving and filtering method used on the Brickbot.