The United International University (UIU) Mars Rover team secured third place in the Anatolian Rover Challenge 2023 organized by the Space Exploration Society (UKET).
The team developed “TELOS”, a Mars rover prototype, reads a press release.
The competition was held at the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara, Turkey on July 19 to 23.
During the finals, the teams performed the missions in a planned order. There are four different mission scenarios and many sub-tasks to complete for each mission. The scores received from the missions are determined by the judges based on the ARC Manual.
In the final round, participating teams were required to demonstrate their rover's prowess through four challenging missions and many sub-tasks in front of a jury of experts, reads the press release.
These missions were named Science, Far Side of the Moon (Autonomous navigation), Saving the Home (Equipment servicing), and Karain (Extreme terrain traversal).
The UIU team finished as the Winner of the Material Selection Challenge of the Rover System section of the competition.
This year, 24 teams from five different countries participated in the international competition among which, 19 teams qualified for the final round.
UIU Mars Rover team has secured te place out of all 19 finalists in the prestigious Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) 2023.
The team is directed by Akib Zaman, lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University.
Lecturer Akib along with Professor Salekul Islam, director of the IQAC, United International University supervised the team in ARC 2023.
The student team leader was Md Abid Hossain from EEE, UIU.
The other members of the visiting team were Ahmed Junaed (CSE), T M Al Anam (CSE), Suraiya Afroz Maria (CSE), Meghboron Paul Akash(CSE), Sheikh Sakib Hossain (CSE), Shah Mehrab Hossain Fahim (CSE), Md Yasin (CSE), Abdullah Al Masud (CSE), Shorower Hossain (CSE) and Fahad Rahman(CSE), UIU.
UIU has become first among Asian teams in University Rover Challenge (URC) held in Hanksville, USA, with their rover named MAVEN also ranking first in Asia in last year's URC.
This year, the UIU team has also reached 9th overall out of 37 global finalists and Last year, they were 13th out of 36 global finalists in URC.