Androgynous docking mechanism ideas

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Limbi Spring ’19
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Limbi Team Creativity Exercise for low-power momentumless androgynous docking ideas
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Author/s: Samonte, Ridel A. PM
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Limbi Team’s main design innovation is to design a low-power momentumless androgynous (universal) docking mechanism that can transfer power. Since we are demonstrating an in-space assembly, we need our docking mechanism to be momentumless (no pushing force) but at the same time be capable of transferring power and/or signal through the connections. Once dock, a low-power positive lock should keep the two docking face together while moving.

Before PDR, our team had our own creativity exercise (Dunker Diagram, Brainstorming, Attribute Listing, Lateral Thinking) where we present our idea’s to each other. Each has its own failure points that failed conceptual operation (ConOps) one way or the other. Androgynous design #6 is the closest to the final design idea for Limbi generation#1 (though it should be mention that a feature or two from each design is an inspiration for the final design). The following are the ideas each member of the team came up with: