European Rover Challenge (ERC) is a competition aimed at students, graduates and faculty members. Participating teams must design and build a Mars rover. Lasting two days competition was conducted in Podzamczu Chęciny near Kielce. Competed in the ten teams of Polish, Egypt, India and Colombia.
The prize winners from Wroclaw received, among others, check for a thousand dollars. The team already has a lot of experience, because in competitions Mars rovers, among others, at American University Rover Challenge competitions, competed four times already. Road to Sunday’s victory, however, was not easy.
At the beginning of the compass failed
The first competition did not bring them points, among others, because of problems with the compass and connectivity. Players filed an appeal, however, that judges found. Re successful passage, added them enough confidence that quickly grew up on the favorite occupations. In subsequent competitions already coped without problems.
– The whole year of hard work finally able to realize. Now we have to improve our jeep. These games have revealed several shortcomings. We will engage new team members to show some new applications – said after the results of a team member Jędrzej Mountain. He stressed that the element to ensure success in the competition is a good team, which went through several ordeals.
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