University Rover Competition

Authors

• Nicholas Huld, Utah State University

Document Type

Poster

Journal/Book Title/Conference

College of Engineering Senior Design Projects

Publisher

Utah State University

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

The Mar’s Society University Rover Challenge (URC) is a robotics competition held annually in the desert of Southern Utah. The competition tasks the engineers with building a remotely operated rover to accomplish four primary missions:

1. Science mission- The rover must conduct an in-situ analysis to determine the presence of life, either extinct or extant, at designated sights.
2. Extreme retrieval and delivery- The rover must pick up and deliver objects in the field while traversing a wide variety of terrain no further than 1 km.
3. Equipment servicing- The rover must perform operations on an equipment system after traveling up to 0.25 km.
4. Autonomous traversal mission- The rover must autonomously traverse between markers across moderately difficult terrain up to a total distance of 2 km.

Recommended Citation

Huld, Nicholas, "University Rover Competition" (2019). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Paper 18.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/maeengr_srdesign/18