University of Sharjah engineering students design 3D human habitat on Mars

Sharjah: How will people stay on Mars? This query has been the topic of science fiction even earlier than the 1900s, and of aerospace engineering and scientific proposals for the reason that Nineteen Forties.

Nowadays, a human mission to Mars is now not science fiction. Plans are underway to ship the primary people to the Red Planet within the subsequent few a long time and the UAE, as one of high 9 international locations on the earth that spend money on the house sciences, goals to ascertain an inhabitable human settlement in Mars by 2117.

A human mission to Mars can also be the topic of the commencement undertaking by a gaggle of feminine students from the Department of Architecture at University of Sharjah’s (UoS) College of Engineering.

Using reconfigurable robots, UoS students Zain Lahham, Amani Nasser and Ghosoun Madani demonstrated a “self-learning habitat designed for future human space exploration missions”.

The world is certainly years away from sending the primary people to Mars however what the examine has achieved is that “it has shown the importance of digital future design and implementation, and support for the use of artificial computational intelligence in architecture and planning,” UoS stated in a press release despatched to Gulf News.

The pupil undertaking is named ‘Beyond Earth’ — a Mars self-learning habitat designed for future house exploration missions utilizing reconfigurable robots. The analysis was supervised by Dr Aref Maksoud. “As a result of this research, an adaptive, self-learning system for building using reconfigurable robotic robots was designed as a future building tool that supports data analysis to solve problems related to construction and environmental conditions on Mars,” the college stated in a press release.

“The students presented the project using digitally processed images and videos supported by virtual reality techniques to appear as real as they are on Mars. 3D-printed models were also used, in addition to stereoscopic visualisation (creating an illusion of three-dimensional depth),” UoS added.

UoS Chancellor Prof. Hamid M.K. Al Naimiy famous the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) “has signified interest in the project and has put forward the possibility of cooperating with the students to realise their project”.