Mars rover Bia?ystok best in the world! Hyperion crazy ... - Gazeta.pl

“Victory! We took first place, winning 493 to 500 points. had a significant advantage over the competition” – we read in relation to the event that the date of Bialystok Technical University representatives put in a social network of its missions to Mars.

This is a huge success, prestige, but also a confirmation that the Bialystok students are extremely creative and have no complexes relative to their peers from other universities in the country and the world. Previous great team effort to get Bialystok Technical University two years ago, the first place in the global competition of Mars rover “Magma 2″.

This result Bialystok team is also the biggest result in the history of the event.

– Best Polish teams score is the result of hard work of students, the university and the organizers – says Matthew Józefowicz of the Mars Society Poland.

Bialystok rover best – won the American competition Mars

international competitions University Rover Challenge rovers in the United States have been held over the weekend in the Martian base in the desert in Utah. These are games in which the tasks are similar to those of the machines perform in space – are struggling prototype robot rovers made in university laboratories. In addition to the team from Bialystok – which presented now said Hyperion rover – the Mars competitions took off several other teams from around the world. In addition to students from Bialystok Poland was represented by team Scorpio III University of Technology and SKNL Rover Team of Rzeszów University of Technology. How to inform students PB – Second place went to the team PW and ?azikowi Scorpio III.

Competing teams with personally designed the rovers have include: to provide a rescue package astronaut look like on Mars for signs of life in the collected of soil samples and clean solar panel. Since the beginning of Bialystok team was optimistic. “The job we have done in the field 12 minutes. Judges were in shock. All efficiently and accurately, we are very pleased. Presentation today. Tomorrow we help lost astronauts on Mars” – says the relationship with the United States.

Or: ” Recent work done at 100 percent. took us a little over 13 minutes – the judges were shocked again. now have to wait for results “- recounted the creator of Hyperion after the last competition in the social networking site. As it turns out – the wait was worth it, because the students PB again proved to be the best in the world.

Hyperion – new rover Bialystok University of Technology

winning Hyperion rover weighs less than 40 kg and has a top speed of 20 km per hour. It is made of aluminum, has a camera, GPS, a gripping arm. A motor mounted in the prototype do not differ from those working in the real Mars rover “Curiosity”. The winning team includes students Hyperion mechanical department: Robert Baldyga – Programmer, Ariel Lech – mechanic, Michael Grze? – builder, James Maliszewski – electronics, Jacek Wojdy?a – electronics. The project coordinator is Mrs Peter Ciura (he took part in creating Magma 2). Team supervisor is Dr. Kazimierz Dzier?ek.

My job and exit financing was part of the project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, “The Future Generation”.