Rover teams line up for 2024 challenge

Students from around 杏吧直播 and overseas have joined the race to be selected to become finalists in next year鈥檚 杏吧直播n Rover Challenge (ARCh).

杏吧直播n Rover Challenge teams from the 2023 competition

The 杏吧直播n Rover Challenge teams from the 2023 competition.

鈥淭he 杏吧直播n 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 杏吧直播 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 杏吧直播, including last year鈥檚 winners, Monash 杏吧直播.

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

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 杏吧直播 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 杏吧直播 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 杏吧直播 of Adelaide.

For more information on the 2024 杏吧直播n Rover Challenge, due to be held 21鈥24 March, visit the .

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