Projects
The Competitions
This year of 2024/2025 we are working hard to design, manufacture, and compete with a new rover in the University Rover Challenge and Anatolian Rover Challenge. Each of the competitions have two main components, technical documentation, and a series of missions:
The technical documentation section involves presenting our design and manufacture process. This is used by the competition panel to select the finalists that will be invited to the competition to compete in the missions.
The missions vary from year to year but involve tasks such as sample collection, autonomous driving, and search and rescue missions.
Our big aspiration this academic year of 2024/2025 is to join the University Rover Challenge set in Utah, USA by the Mars Society! Interestingly, the site is geographically similar to Mars and has a similar chemical composition in its soil. We cannot wait to take up the challenge!
ARC ran for the first time in July 2022, in which we were the only team from the UK to compete! We hope to return and win the challenge for 2025!
Development Rover
A more experimental rover of a smaller size is being built to test new features and to take to outreach events!
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We recruit at the beginning of each academic year.
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