Persistence Rover Team

Project

University Rover Challenge The URC is a international competition in which college teams compete to design a rover that can accomplish 4 different tasks.

final rover moving through the lawn behind the Engineering building -by the fine arts building
  • Life Detection Mission
  • Extreme Delivery & Retrieval Mission
  • Equipment Servicing Mission
  • Autonomous Navigation

Design

Vehicle Dynamics
Functional design of Chassis and Wheels

vehicle dynamics
chassis

Communications
Communication from base station and rover control/everything

Communications

Life Detection
Collect sample and detect life

Life Detection

Arm
Claw design for dexterous mobility tasks

Rover robotic arm
Rover claw

Performance Review

  • The competition has a set of task that the rover needs to complete, and our team scored 76.10 points out of 100 from their judges.
  • Drive over Terrain
  • Arm Testing
rover going over some blocks of wood
rover holding a jug

Conclusion

Peristence Rover Team Utah State University
  • We did not make it the competition but have provided a great starting place for next years team to focus on the mission critical systems.
  • We learned the importance of teamwork and meeting deadlines.
  • We suggest that later teams focus on the autonomy and science sections. With a currently operating rover, it is vital to get the mission critical systems fully functioning and integrated.
University Rover Challenge