Lunar Rover Design Competition
It was the same time last year that we worked on a moon rover competition for SEDS International Conference 2007 in India. The winner, if I remember right got half-tution scholarship to the International Space University. With that bit of information, I should have guessed that preparations for this year might have already begun, especially with UKSEDS being involved with the UK Space Conference besides SEDS International Conference 2008.
Kirk (with whom through AAS, we in SEDS-India held the competition with) did it againg this time and has come up with an array of information, blog , forum discussions and mailing list.
The problem involves designing a rover that will help humans once they get to work on the Moon. So, these guys will be working while we sleep, eat or do other work that we have not automated. It's perhaps a great next step to what we had in India.
I heard from Kirk, that Indian students came up with really cool and crazy rover designs some of which even captured his imagination. This might set the bar for this year's event. Also, we've got a lot of students interested in India, who I hope will respond positively for this year's event as well.
For those of you, who have caught up with the Twitter bug, you can also catch updates on Twitter.
Posted at 06:37PM Feb 11, 2008 by Pradeep in SEDS | Comments[0]