Mars Rover World Champion
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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].![](http://nickmccomb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DSC_0269_edit.jpg)
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.![](http://nickmccomb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/rover_team.jpg)
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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.
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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
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