2020 is first year we competed, we were expecting an in person competition, in Poland. However as certain situations started to arise, we quickly came to terms with the fact that that will not be happening. As the European Rover Challenge is the largest international robotics and space competition in Europe, it was moved online so the teams still got to participate with a small changes to the rules.
We remotely controlled a Leo Rover using Freedom Robotics to navigate the world’s largest artificial Martian track. Freedom Robotics is a virtual platform made specifically for this event when you get real time feedback from the rover as you are remotely driving it from anywhere around the globe.
The European Rover Challenge is the largest international robotics and space competition in Europe, this year our team RoboClyde came 12th in the first ever remote edition competing against 38 universities from across the world. The main goal was to use Leo rover in coordination with Freedom Robotics, a specially designed virtual platform to drive the robot in the world’s largest artificial Martian track in the smallest details, using software that our team created.