{"id":28,"date":"2015-06-27T01:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/?p=28"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T00:29:58","slug":"mars-rover-srrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/mars-rover-srrc","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rover &#8211; Sample Return Robot Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the Electrical Team Lead for the OSU Mars Rover team during the 2014-2015 Academic year. I lead the development of a &#8220;Mars Rover&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.wpi.edu\/challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sample Return Robot Challenge<\/a>, sponsored by NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I lead the development of \u00a0an entire embedded robotic system that interacted with an Embedded Computer to provide a solid foundation for the Software team to build off of. A list of the major features of the system can be found below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dimension Engineering &#8220;Saberteeth&#8221; Motor Controllers<\/li>\n<li>Custom Atmel ATxmega microcontroller PCBs (called &#8220;Brainboards&#8221;)\n<ul>\n<li>Brainboards were used as &#8220;hosts&#8221; for\u00a0a number of daughterboards that preformed specialized functions (e.g. Stepper Driving, XBee breakouts, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>C++ fimware implementation on microcontroller boards (ATxmega128A3U)\n<ul>\n<li>Innovative features to reduce unnecessary replication of code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Power distribution and management<\/li>\n<li>XBee &#8220;Pause Switch&#8221; Implementation<\/li>\n<li>Stereo Vision System for obstacle avoidance<\/li>\n<li>NVidia Jetson Embedded Computer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a class=\"lts_button lts_button_sc lts_button_default lt_rounded lt_flat  \" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background:#2dcb73;color:#ffffff;border-color:#2dcb73;\" href=\"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Rover-Documentation.pdf\"   >Final 2015 System Documentation<\/a>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/OSURoboticsClub\/Rover2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project GitHub Page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarsRoverGroup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-image-30 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarsRoverGroup-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Most of the Mars Rover Leadership Team.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarsRoverGroup-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarsRoverGroup-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarsRoverGroup.png 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taken during the Sample Return Robot Challenge in Worcester Massachusetts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the Electrical Team Lead for the OSU Mars Rover team during the 2014-2015 Academic year. I lead the development of a &#8220;Mars Rover&#8221; for the Sample Return Robot Challenge, sponsored by NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I lead the development of \u00a0an entire embedded robotic system that interacted with an Embedded Computer to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/mars-rover-srrc\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}