1. Mars Rover Design Team

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. University Rover Challenge
International competition held in Hanksville, Utah
4 competition tasks, 36 teams

6. 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

7. Team Structure 4 branches 7 interdisciplinary technical sub-teams
DriveTrain
RoveCore
Power
Science
Manipulators
Ground Support Systems
Development

8. Applying Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal processing
Communication RF
Electronics design
Embedded programming
Machine vision
Autonomy
Control Systems
Power electronics/Power distribution
Electromechanics

9. Future Innovations Custom Motors Fully Embedded Microcontrollers
Antenna Tracking
Haptic Controller for Robotic Arm
Mini Rovers
Spectrometer Database

10. 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

11. Thank you for your support!