WPI Robo-Ops Team Oryx

WPI Robo-Ops Team Oryx WPI's entry into the NASA RASC-AL Robo-Ops Competition. http://wpirover.com

The team for this years competition is a combination of a senior design team and undergraduate students. This year's project will be focusing on creating a micro-rover to assist Oryx 2.0 as well fine-tuning Oryx 2.0. Team members:
Ennio Claretti
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Davis
Arthur Fulgoni
David Kelly
Ran Li
Quan Peng
Steven Ruotolo
Cody Shultz
Jives Tolani
Jacob Zizmor

Faculty Advisors:
Taskin Padir
Ken Stafford
Brad Miller
Velin Dimitrov

Competition details: http://www.nianet.org/RASCAL/RoboOps/index.aspx

WPI got the 'rascie awards' for being able to pick up the aliens, for doing donuts at the top of the mars hill before en...
06/07/2013

WPI got the 'rascie awards' for being able to pick up the aliens, for doing donuts at the top of the mars hill before ending and the happiest rover award for the micro-rover. Here's the alien we got to keep!

The competition was as fierce as it was close. WPI got 3rd place this year! Only 2.6 points away from first. Congratulat...
06/07/2013

The competition was as fierce as it was close. WPI got 3rd place this year! Only 2.6 points away from first. Congratulations to Umass Lowell for first, and U of Maryland for second.

06/07/2013

After a long day filled with nail bitting moments, ORYX and the Micro-rover are packed up for their trip home. Awards are next. With the top 3 teams within 3 points of each other, it all comes down to our education and public outreach score.

Part of our final score is based off of how many views we get on our EPO video, so everyone should check out our video a...
06/05/2013

Part of our final score is based off of how many views we get on our EPO video, so everyone should check out our video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxcPr47ZlQ

WPI Team Oryx's Robo-Ops 2013 Outreach Video

06/05/2013

We scored 54 points! ORYX picked up 3 yellow rocks at 1 point each, a purple rock for 5 points and a red rock for 6 points. We also got a 25 point bonus for picking up at least one rock in each environment, and 15 points for ending at the top of Mars Hill.

06/05/2013

We just finished our run! It was a great experience!!

06/05/2013

Houston, all systems are nominal. Mission is a go.

06/05/2013

ORYX and the Micro-rover is ready to go to the JSC Rock Yard. T -1 hour

06/05/2013

Team Oryx is awake and ready to start the day. Competition in T -2 hours.

We are all set to compete tomorrow at 8:30am Central (9:30am Eastern). Be sure to watch the live stream at robot.wpi.edu...
06/04/2013

We are all set to compete tomorrow at 8:30am Central (9:30am Eastern). Be sure to watch the live stream at
robot.wpi.edu/microrover/?p=117

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