University Rover Competition - Queen's Space Engineering Team

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As a member of the Queen's Space Engineering Team, I developed hardware and software components for a 6 degree of freedom robotic arm which operated in the XYZ plane, as well as for the movement of a Mars rover.

Having competed in the University Rover Challenge in Arizona, our team did incredibly well as a first­-time competitor, placing 5th of 31 in the equipment servicing task, in which the robotic arm is almost exclusively used.

A video of the robotic arm and movement system can be seen in the competition below:

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