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Mars Rover Design Team
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The Team Develop next generation Mars Rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts in the field Founded in Spring of 2012 Student led, student managed Team of ~60 undergraduate students from over 14 different majors
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Vision Today: Working together to design and build the best rover possible for our competition Tomorrow: Empowering our members to have the skills to be successful future engineers Forever: Inspiring youth to pursue careers in STEM and furthering space technology
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Budget FY17 Expenditure FY17 Income Subteam Expected Expenditure
Source Projected FY 17 Admin $2,500.00 SDELC $10,000 Competition $6,500.00 SAFB $4,000 DriveTrain $4,600.00 Corporate Donations $15,000 GSS $2,900.00 Friends & Families $5,000 Mainpulators $3,250.00 Campus Departments $2,500 Man. Logistics $5,700.00 Campus Academies Power Systems $7,400.00 Fundraising Total $41,500 Public Relations $1,300.00 Starting Balance $8,100 R&D $4,750.00 Total $49,600 RoveCore $1,100.00 Science $3,600.00 $43,600.00
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University Rover Challenge
International competition held in Hanksville, Utah 4 competition tasks, 36 teams
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2017: Year of the Gryphon Team’s 5th rover
1 year design, build, compete cycle New and innovative rover platform Mantis Suspension Autonomy Capability 5 degree of freedom robotic arm Custom FT-Raman Spectrometer Custom brushless motor controllers
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Team Structure 4 branches 7 interdisciplinary technical sub-teams
DriveTrain RoveCore Power Science Manipulators Ground Support Systems Development
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Applying Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal processing Communication RF Electronics design Embedded programming Machine vision Autonomy Control Systems Power electronics/Power distribution Electromechanics
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Future Innovations Custom Motors Fully Embedded Microcontrollers
Antenna Tracking Haptic Controller for Robotic Arm Mini Rovers Spectrometer Database
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Impact Students Community Practical learning outside the classroom
Building network of peers and contacts Experience working in a team Learn responsibility in engineering Community Outreach brings younger generations into STEM fields Competition performance brings attention to university Encourages other students to join design teams
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