NASA's Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition
One of the Mechanical/Mechatronic senior project teams of California State University of Chico, is building their Lunar Excavating Fully Autonomous Robot for the NASA's Third Annual "Lunabotics Mining Competition" which will be held on May 21-26, 2012, in Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This page can be considered as their project tracking documentary and will be providing updates and improvements as they move on.
04/30/2012
Test run submitted for competition approval.
Things are coming together and the team is excited to go compete!
CSU Chico Lunabotics 2012 A video of Team B.E.A.R.'s lunar excavating rover doing preliminary tests before competition. Team B.E.A.R. (BP-1 Excavating Autonomous Rover) is a dedicated...
03/10/2012
Assembling and testing series of electronic components.
Primary testing
A new FAQ sheet was posted:http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/485336main_LunaboticsFAQ.pdf
@ the End of the 1st half
11/03/2011
Check out the full story at:
http://theorion.com/features/article_633777b8-0444-11e1-9333-001a4bcf6878.html
After 2 years of idle time period IGV (Intelligent Ground Vehicle) robot got back to work with wireless Xbox controller.