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University Rover Challenge (URC)
University Rover Challenge (URC)
The University Rover Challenge is an engineering competition designed for university students. It is organized by the Mars Society. The competition is to build rovers that may assist astronauts on the surface of Mars. The rover must be capable of four mission-based tasks: a science mission to investigate sites for life, a delivery mission to deliver objects to astronauts across the rugged terrains, an equipment servicing mission to perform dexterous operations on a mock lander using a robotic arm, and an autonomous navigation mission to travel to a series of locations and find objects autonomously. The robot will be scored on its overall mission performance across these four missions.
The official guidebook can be found here.
NASA Lunabotics Competition (Previous Competition)
NASA Lunabotics Competition (Previous Competition)
The NASA Lunabotics Competition is a design challenge for college teams based off of the current NASA mission of traveling to, and potentially inhabiting Mars. To get to Mars, we will first need to travel to the moon. Thus, The Lunabotics competition challenges college level teams to design and build an autonomous robot that can maneuver rocky lunar regolith and create a regolith-based berm. The goal is to build a berm structure which would be useful to the Artemis Mission for protection during lunar landings and launches, shading cryogenic propellant tank farms, providing radiation protection around a nuclear power plant and other mission uses. The robot will be scored based on a project management plan, systems engineering paper, and a proof of life video.
The guidebook can be found here.
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