Maryland RoboOps

Maryland RoboOps UMD's page for the annual RASC-AL RoboOps competition funded by NASA! The end goal is to design and create a planetary rover that picks up "space rocks".

RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition (i.e., Robo-Ops) is an engineering competition sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace. In this exciting competition, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to create a multi-disciplinary team to build a planetary rover prototype and demonstrate its capabilities to perform a series of competitive tasks in field tests at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Rock Yard. Each rover will must be controlled from the home university campus via a commercial broadband wireless uplink. The only information available to the rover controller to perform the required tasks will be information transmitted through on-board rover video camera(s) or other on-board sensors. Cameras will allow the transmission of the competition back to the home universities as well as the general public.

06/04/2016
One of our student team members attacked the course in a space suit designed and built by the Space Systems Laboratory. ...
05/26/2016

One of our student team members attacked the course in a space suit designed and built by the Space Systems Laboratory. The red you see on the suit (MX-C) is Hawaiian soil from MX-C's previous home at NASA's Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) habitat.

We are live now http://www.ustream.tv/channel/umd-roboops-livestream
05/25/2016

We are live now http://www.ustream.tv/channel/umd-roboops-livestream

We are the University of Maryland entry in the RASC-AL RoboOps competition. Watch Koko, our rover, compete live at Johnson Space Center as we control it from the UMD College Park campus.

We are the second lightest rover this year!
05/24/2016

We are the second lightest rover this year!

05/24/2016
This week, we are featuring Brandi Churchwell from Laurel, Md. Brandi is a Junior Aerospace Engineering Major on the Ele...
05/16/2016

This week, we are featuring Brandi Churchwell from Laurel, Md. Brandi is a Junior Aerospace Engineering Major on the Electronics team, working with her team-mates to make sure Koko is up and running flawlessly for competition day!

When she’s not working on Koko, she’s busy being a teaching fellow for a sophomore level engineering class. She’s also the newly elected Treasurer for the Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics group here at Maryland!

We are so glad Brandi is part of our team!

05/10/2016

Everyone had so much fun on Maryland Day!!

Our feature this week is Núria Such, from the Mechanical team. Núria is a Senior Aerospace Engineering Major from the Po...
05/04/2016

Our feature this week is Núria Such, from the Mechanical team.
Núria is a Senior Aerospace Engineering Major from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, and she is doing her Senior year abroad here with us at the University of Maryland!!

Along with the rest of the arm team, she’s working to design, construct, and test all aspects of the manipulator arm. She's taken a keen interest in the design and development of Koko's end effectors. Also, she's developing her Honors Thesis on laser ablation for orbital debris at the Space Power and Propulsion Lab at UMD.

Núria is a pleasure to have on our team, thanks to Spain for letting us borrow her for the year!!

We had so much fun on Maryland Day!! Thanks to all the families, students, and alumni that came by to see and play with ...
05/02/2016

We had so much fun on Maryland Day!! Thanks to all the families, students, and alumni that came by to see and play with the rover!

We could even spot some of the future engineers mastering the control of our little rover. Good job everyone!!

This week we are featuring Nathaniel Locke, from Baltimore, MD. Nate is a junior Aerospace Engineering Major here at the...
04/13/2016

This week we are featuring Nathaniel Locke, from Baltimore, MD.
Nate is a junior Aerospace Engineering Major here at the University of Maryland and is on the chassis and suspension team making sure that the robot is constructed. Specifically, he's designing the differential bar along with assisting with the design of the mast and rocker.

Oh, and he is also a member of the Unmanned Aerial Systems team here at Maryland!

Working with Nate is a fantastic experience, we are so glad Nate is in our team!

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