Topological Interlocking Bricks for Habitat Construction in Extraterrestrial Environments
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As NASA and other space agencies prepare for a sustained return of humans to the Moon, one key focus area pertains to the challenges of constructing resilient habitats in space. Traditional approaches suggest using robots for single-pass 3D printing of entire habitats, yet this method is constrained by the size limitations of the robots themselves. In this paper, we propose an adaptable and modular approach for human habitat construction based on topological interlocking bricks. These 3D-printed structural elements are designed with specially shaped elements that lock together in such a way to offer enhanced resilience and modularity compared to conventional methods. However, the development of extraterrestrial structures requires a consideration of the extreme environmental conditions, the use of in situ resources and on situ fabrication capabilities. We conducted a review of environmental conditions on the Moon to provide useful information regarding structural requirements, available materials, and fabrication methods. We presented various topological interlocking systems and evaluated different assemblies under lunar gravity to recommend an ideal solution for different types of lunar structures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".