Adaptive Oxygen Production of the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) though Feedback Control of Pressure Sensor 4

The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) has demonstrated the ability of a system to produce Oxygen on the surface of Mars by means of Solid Oxide Electrolysis from atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. This work builds on the mission goals of MOXIE, which runs only intermittently and with much manual planning for each run, to develop control algorithms that will lay the foundation for fully autonomous and continuous functionality of future systems. Through modeling and experimentation on the MOXIE FlatSat system at MIT Haystack Observatory, the robustness of the pressure sensor feedback control loop was validated. The maximum Oxygen production rate achieved during the investigation was 6.07 grams per hour.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Horn, Kyle J.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hoffman, Jeffery A.

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• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

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• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150106

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/150106