Mars Rover World Champion

The Challenge
The Canadian International Rover Challenge is an international competition that takes place annually in Drumheller, Alberta. The competition aims to replicate what conditions a Mars Rover could face on a foreign planet, with tasks ranging from Mining (Resource Extraction) to finding and assisting an injured astronaut. My personal mirror of the rules can be found here [link].
My Role
I was the Team Lead for the team, which meant I orchestrated all team operations, ranging from organizing team meetings and design sessions. I had a great group of sub-team leads, and a team member who served as the team’s “CTO”, who pushed the initial design of the Rover while I was spending the first term of the year interning at SpaceX. When I came back, I hit the ground running and pushing the Rover forward.

The Robot
The robot that we designed for the 2018 Rover Challenge is the culmination of many years of lessons learned from previous Rover Competitions. The team leadership had a significant amount of experience from previous experience that we were able to learn from and make a winning robot.

In The News
Naturally, us winning the competition resulted in us appearing in the news a few times. I’ve included some of them below:- http://www.kezi.com/content/news/Oregon-State-Robotics-wins-international-Mars-rover-competition-493001681.html
- https://drumhelleronline.com/local/oregon-state-university-wins-2018-canadian-international-rover-competition
- https://www.ktvz.com/news/osu-s-mars-rover-wins-international-competition/793557214
- https://ca.news.yahoo.com/rovers-descend-southern-alberta-apos-160716421.html
