{"id":138,"date":"2017-08-01T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cprt\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2018-04-07T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:46:33","slug":"the-rovers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cprt\/the-rovers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Waldo<\/h2>\n<p>Stay Tuned!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Sparky<\/h2>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cprt.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/b73f9-1499903042238.jpg\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Sparky is our second rover:<br \/>\nWe began design in September 2016, and completed Sparky in June 2017. We entered Sparky in the 2017 Canadian International Rover Challenge, where the team won 2nd place.<\/p>\n<h4>The facts:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mass: 48kg in competition configuration, 56kg fully loaded<\/li>\n<li>Power: 12V 60Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries<\/li>\n<li>Communications: 802.11g, standard 2.4GHz Wi-Fi<\/li>\n<li>Status: Active<\/li>\n<li>Steepest slope climbed: 35 degrees, so far<\/li>\n<li>Top speed: 2.2 m\/s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 426px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/cprt.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/img_33161.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sparky does pushups.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>H3<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 507px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-145 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cprt.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/img_6545.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"IMG_6545\" width=\"507\" height=\"380\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 rover design. Terrain traversing configuration at the 2016 UKURC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>H3 was our first rover.\u00a0Starting in September 2015, we just finished H3 in time for the United Kingdom University Rover Challenge in July 2016. Despite persistent communications issues, the team earned a 4th place finish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 295px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-144 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cprt.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/13662479_10208249751296487_1590659977_o1.jpg\" alt=\"13662479_10208249751296487_1590659977_o\" width=\"295\" height=\"363\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claw end effector. Used for the astronaut assistance and equipment servicing tasks.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>The facts:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mass: 37.2kg fully loaded<\/li>\n<li>Power: 12V 60Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries<\/li>\n<li>Communications: 802.11g, standard 2.4GHz Wi-Fi<\/li>\n<li>Top speed: 1.6 m\/s<\/li>\n<li>Status: Retired<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Pioneer P3-DX<\/h2>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t build this one, but it&#8217;s a member of the family anyways.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2014, the software team needed a platform to program and test, to prepare their system for the rovers we would soon build. Thanks to a generous grant from CUESEF, the team was able to purchase a Pioneer P3-DX, which we continue to use for indoor testing and autonomy development.<\/p>\n<h4>The facts:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Power: 3x 12V Sealed Lead Acid<\/li>\n<li>Communications: RS-232 Serial Only<\/li>\n<li>Status: Active<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waldo Stay Tuned! 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