Robotics students pit their skills on global stage
Some of the team who聽participated in the IEEE Telepresence competition. Left to right: Henry Mellor,聽Lachie Fitzgibbon,聽Christopher Smart, Dat Khuc and Cooper Whitbread, with Associate Professor John Culton (right).
The 成人大片 Rover Team has been selected as one of only seven teams globally to participate in the IEEE Telepresence Competition on Saturday, 16 November (ACDT).
鈥淭he IEEE Telepresence Competition will test students鈥 ability to remotely control the movement of a rover, located on the side of a mountain in the Mojave Desert, while they are in Adelaide,鈥 said Associate Professor John Culton, Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR).
鈥淩obotic vehicles will navigate a terrestrial analogue equivalent of聽a lunar environment.
鈥淭he mobility of the rover 鈥 and the piloting skills of the team 鈥 will be tested on sloped terrain of sand and rocks and flat terrain of sand and lunar regolith simulant.鈥
The competition will test each team鈥檚 ability to remotely control robotic vehicles, under conditions of delayed signals, with perception provided by on-board sensors. They will each be given a 30-minute window of operation to reach a waypoint on the course and return to base.
Four teams from the US, one from Chile and two from Australia will compete for prizes, including $5000 for the winning team. Finalists were selected to compete based on their experience of teleoperating robots and general team expertise.
Students Jingyi Qiu, Cooper Whitbread, Henry Mellor, Georgia Dallimore, Dat Khuc, Christopher Smart, Lachie Fitzgibbon, Thy Tao, Olivia Jean Aston, Mei Willis, Aaron Hamilton and Britney Russell particpated in the competition in the Exterres Lab Mission Control.
鈥淭he Adelaide Rover Team has been presented with the exciting opportunity to compete in IEEE Telepresence Competition in California,鈥 said team captain Jingyi聽Qiu.
鈥淭his is an amazing moment to debut the 成人大片 and South Australia鈥檚 ascent into the global space industry.
鈥淲e will be operating the Helelani Rover which is owned by the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES), remotely from our base station at the EXTERRES Mission Control at the North Terrace campus.鈥
The brainchild of聽NASA Swamp Works Director Rob Meuller, the purpose of the competition is to understand the challenges of remotely operating lunar surface hardware from Earth and the future NASA Gateway Station on lunar-like terrain.
Winners of the will be announced at the California Institute of Technology. Find out more about the .
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