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COBEM 2021
26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPLIED TO HIGH POWER ROCKET DEVELOPMENT
Submission Author:
Andres Gilberto Machado da Silva Benoit , RS , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Andres Gilberto Machado da Silva Benoit, Guilherme Ribeiro de Lima, José Cruz, Lucas Furlan Rufino Silva, Luca Sauer de Araujo, Vitor Oliveira Mota, João Vítor Bernardi Rohr, João Felipe De Araujo Martos
Presenter: João Vítor Bernardi Rohr
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2021.COB2021-0721
Abstract
The project and development of a hybrid rocket engine requires an extensive system engineering analysis throughout its life cycle, even in rocketry. Applying it correctly is of utmost importance to ensure the mission success and nationally, it is difficult to find dedicated bibliography in this topic. Therefore, this work main goal is to present a guide of decision matrix involved into a rocketry project, so teams can run their projects and take the decisions accordingly to multiple processes which appear along the project. The shown in this article is a result of what was made in project Photon developed by Tau Rocket Team, the undergraduate team made up by students from Federal University of Santa Maria. The main division of the team was made into sectors with one captain for each one and those were defined accordingly to what was found on past team projects and they are: structures, recovery, propulsion, ground support, aerodynamics and avionics. The development was conducted initially by defining the main mission requirements, also, decision matrices were built for each sector and their subsystem in order to define the components of the launch vehicle and possible configurations. Once the decision were taken, weekly meetings were conducted in order to keep the team aware of actual project situation since communication is extremely important on engineering projects. The decision matrices approach has been positive so far and has helped on the choices the team had made and will make on further project phases. On this work, the purpose is to provide a general vision of what happens on a rocket team and gave the readers a considerable notion of launch vehicle development process.
Keywords
decision matrix, rocketry, hybrid engine, system engineering
