ARIEL
Autonomous Rescue Instrument for Emergency Landing (ARIEL) is the most recent project that I am leading for Cornell MicroGravity. ARIEL is designed to assist astronauts of the 2024 Artemis Mission to the Moon in the event of an unplanned egress into the ocean, such as a launch abort. ARIEL is designed to be dropped from a Class 2 UAV into a maritime environment and autonomously navigate to astronauts' emergency distress beacon, where it will deliver emergency supplies. On December 5, 2019, NASA announced that ARIEL's proposal was selected as one of a few teams to move forward in the competition to construct and test the device in the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in May 2020.
As the design and manufacturing lead for this project, I have been managing a 15-student team to integrate the electrical, propulsion, structure, and equipment subsystems of the vehicle. Additionally, I am performing the structural design and analysis as part of my senior design project, using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to optimize the structure for weight and dynamic impact with water.
