🔭 Sooner Rover Team 🤖

The Sooner Rover Team, is a multidisciplinary robotics competition team dedicated towards advancing remote robotics, with a competitive focus in mind. Each year our school competes in the University Rover Challenge (URC) to see how our robotics and technical mindsets compete with other teams internationally. 

The team is split into several sub-teams which consists of:

• Autonomous

• Mechanical

• Electrical

• Science

Autonomous duties include designing the program for navigation and obstacle avoidance, on top of this there are additional tasks that include sub-challenges like using machine learning and AI to identify objects. The basis for this sub-team is mostly involved with software engineering and computer science. 

Mechanical has control over the general design of the rover and the general mechanical designs for the machine. This includes things like the wheels arms and all the little bits in between like support braces. A large amount of CAD is also involved with this sub-team and is very crucial to the overall success of the team. They also do a smaller amount of programming mostly around PID controllers.

Electrical does the majority of the work surrounding the sensors and electrical subsystems for the rover - ensuring maximum cohesion between various systems through the totality of the rover - this involves the implementation of various Arduino based micro-controllers and other subsystems which are then worked on - through higher level abstraction by other sub-teams.

Science forms the backbone of the teams mission directive - which is to understand and simulate a martian mission. The science team does a variety of different research tasks relevant to sub-surface abrasion and understanding various mineral compositions in order to be able to form conclusions on the past activity of an area. In general then without the Science team the rest of the rover team would be directionless as the experimentation defines how the rest of the rover is constructed and modified from there. 

Overall then it has been an absolute pleasure to work with the Rover team and it has also been deeply fulfilling to serve alongside them.