The intersection of art and science in the Charger Mars Rover project

• Post by: Bahareh Arghavani
• March 6, 2023
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Charger Mars Rover:As you may be aware, our Robotics Club is competing in the University Mars Rover Challenge for the first time this year. Over the past 4 months, the club has been working day and night to develop a mars rover platform that is capable of autonomous and remote navigation, as well as performing experiments for detection of signs of life on Mars. Last Friday, the club completed their first fully functional prototype of this Mars Rover. This platform showcases our students’ excellent capabilities in various domains of engineering, including Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical engineering, as well as Computer Science and Data Science. As the faculty advisor to the Robotics club, I am quite impressed with (and proud of) the team’s dedication and technical prowess in this project. The team has created a demo video for the rover, available here: 

This immense accomplishment would not have been possible without the support of Dr. Ali Golbazi (Chair, ECECS), Dean Harichandran’s Office, and Mr. Mark Morton.