Document Type

Poster

Journal/Book Title/Conference

College of Engineering Senior Design Projects

Publisher

Utah State University

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

The University Rover Competition is held annually near Hanksville, UT at the Mars Desert Research Station. Each team must design and build a rover compete in four different tasks:

  1. Science Mission. The rover is required to conduct an in-situ analysis to determine the presence of extinct or extant life at designated sites
  2. Extreme Retrieval and Delivery. The rover is required to pick up and deliver objects in the field while traversing a wide variety of terrain no further than 1 km from the base station.
  3. Equipment Servicing. The rover is required to perform operations on an equipment system after traveling up to 0.25 km.
  4. Autonomous Traversal Mission. The rover is required to autonomously traverse between markers across moderately difficult terrain up to a total distance of 2 km.

The science mission is worth 20% of a team’s overall score. All analyses must be performed by the rover on site, and any liquids used for the analysis must strictly follow a no-spill policy.

Completion of the science task requires knowledge of astrobiology and modern methods used to determine the existence of life. Once the rover has completed an analysis of each site, the team is required to prepare a 10 minute presentation describing the results of each test.

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