Competition & roadmap

What we're building toward

The competition target, the capabilities it demands, and the order we plan to get them working.

Roadmap

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Page being updated

The competition target and the semester-by-semester plan are being finalized.

Capabilities the vehicle needs

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Independent of which competition we enter, the same four capabilities decide whether the rover is competitive: it has to know where it is without GPS, decide what ground it can cross, stay reachable at range, and do useful physical work at the far end of that link.

Everything on the roadmap is sequenced against those four, and each subsystem's schedule is derived from them rather than set independently.

LocalizePosition and heading with no GPS fix
TraverseTerrain costing and planning on a map built in real time
Stay connectedKilometer-class link carrying control, telemetry and video
ManipulateTeleoperated arm usable through that link's latency