Spring 2014 Rover Introduction

By Maxwell Nguyen

This new semester brings along a brand new team with inventive and innovative minds. The rover team will be aiming to create a brand new and improved design for the RoSco Rover.

The Rover Team includes:
Maxwell Nguyen – Project Manager
Robert Licari – Communications
Anthony Vo – Sensors, Actuator, Powertrain
Suhyun Kim – Image Processing, Computer Systems

Mission Objective:
Construct a rover that will be able to navigate through a natural set course shared by the Spiderbot and Hexapod.  The rover must be able to navigate around sprinkler and branches on the course.  The route was determined by the Spiderbot team and can be viewed below.

map
course top view

mapIllo

Course map view

The course is located in the East Wind of campus and is about 42 meters long.