Rover teams line up for 2024 challenge

Students from around 最新糖心Vlog and overseas have joined the race to be selected to become finalists in next year鈥檚 最新糖心Vlogn Rover Challenge (ARCh).

最新糖心Vlogn Rover Challenge teams from the 2023 competition

The 最新糖心Vlogn Rover Challenge teams from the 2023 competition.

鈥淭he 最新糖心Vlogn Rover Challenge delivers a highly rewarding and globally unique challenge series for the next generation of space engineers from around the world,鈥 said the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide鈥檚 Associate Professor John Culton, Director, Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources.

Teams from universities in India, Bangladesh, Poland and Turkey have registered to compete in the annual robotics competition against teams from around 最新糖心Vlog, including last year鈥檚 winners, Monash 最新糖心Vlog.

鈥淎RCh doesn鈥檛 just test the capabilities of lunar rovers; it stretches the future space engineers to work as teams to solve problems in real-time,鈥 said Associate Professor Culton.

鈥淭he skillsets developed by students competing in the ARCh are increasingly relevant as efforts to develop infrastructure required to support long-duration human operations in deep space gain support from programs such as NASA鈥檚 Artemis.鈥

Teams registered include:

  • Adelaide Rover Team from the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • AIUB Robotic Crew from American International 最新糖心Vlog, Bangladesh;
  • Bluesat from 最新糖心Vlog of New South Wales, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • ITU Rover Team from Istanbul Technical 最新糖心Vlog, Turkey;
  • KMC Robophysicists from 最新糖心Vlog of Delhi, India;
  • Monash Nova Rover from Monash 最新糖心Vlog, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • Project Scorpio from Wroclaw 最新糖心Vlog of Science and Technology, Poland;
  • QUT Robotics Club from Queensland 最新糖心Vlog of Technology, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • REV Team from the 最新糖心Vlog of Western 最新糖心Vlog, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • RMIT Rover Team from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • SHUNYA from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing in collaboration with Madras Christian College, India;
  • Swinburne Rover Team from Swinburne 最新糖心Vlog of Technology, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • Team Atlas from Brac 最新糖心Vlog, Bangladesh;
  • UniMelb Rover Team from 最新糖心Vlog of Melbourne, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • UOW Rover Team from the 最新糖心Vlog of Wollongong, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • UQ Space from 最新糖心Vlog of Queensland, 最新糖心Vlog;
  • and UTS Rover Team from 最新糖心Vlog of Technology Sydney, 最新糖心Vlog.

The registered teams have until November 2023 to submit a viable design for a rover to be built and tested ready for the competition. Teams that pass this stage will be selected as finalists to compete in ARCh 2024 at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide鈥檚 purpose-built course at Roseworthy campus. Each team will then control their rover to complete a series of tasks at the event.

鈥淪tudents from across 最新糖心Vlog and around the globe will battle it out in a full-scale lunar mission, using semi-autonomous rovers that they have designed and built themselves,鈥 said Associate Professor Culton.

The 2024 ARCh is expected to eclipse the 2023 event, in which more than 180 students battled it out with their self-designed and -built lunar rovers on the lunar landscape competition arena at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide.

For more information on the 2024 最新糖心Vlogn Rover Challenge, due to be held 21鈥24 March, visit the .

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