We participate in the CanSat Comeback Competition hosted by ARLISS.
The compeition invites students from around the world to design and build an autonomous robot for the purpose of being loaded into a rocket and launched 15,000 feet into the air.
Once the rocket reaches apogee the robot is ejected, and it's job is to safely reach the ground and navigate to provided GPS coordinates.
Our robots are only constrained by size, weight, and descent speed. The rest is up to us.
This means we have freedom to bring any robot we choose to design.
Black Rock Desert, Nevada
The design is just a body, two wheels, and a stabilizer. This is our flagship design because of
its reliability and its efficient volume utilization.
This year, this projects goal is to reach within 10 meters of the target.
We are currently developing our first prototypes.
This project is meant to push our limits and challenge us more than The Rover, as it is a passive glider, no propulsion.
The plan is for it to autonomously glide down to the target after ejection.
This year, this projects goal is to reach within 0.5 km of the target.
We are currently developing our first prototypes.
This project is similar to the sphereo toys, where it is a sphere that is self contained and drives with an internal drive train.
We do not have intentions on taking this to competition this year.