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NEW DELHI: After the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 lander on the lunar south pole, Isro is now gearing up for future robotic exploration missions to the Moon and other celestial bodies.
The space agency is seeking innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers from the youth and will also organise a ‘space challenge’ to select the best proposals.“In line with this vision, U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Isro, solicits from the youth of India, innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers forfuture missions through the conduct of a space robotics challenge with an objective to provide development opportunities in space robotics to the participating entities and to leverage the creative thinking among the youth of our nation for Isro interplanetary missions,” the space agency said in a statement. To provide an opportunity to students in the area of space robotics, the ‘Isro Robotics Challenge-URSC 2024’ will be organised with a tagline ‘Let’s build a space robot’.
The challenge consists of an engineering project where institutional teams build robots to compete in an extra-terrestrial-inspired arena, performing tasks based on real life challenges faced by space robotics. “This is an invitation for the student community for the design and realisation of a ‘Wheeled/Legged Rover’ encompassing the development of complete hardware and software. The solutions provided by the students in IRoC-U 2024 have a greater chance of getting incorporated into ISRO’s future interplanetary robotics missions,” an Isro statement said.
The objectives of the challenge are: to provide a standardised platform for exploring the area of space robotics; to develop a deeper understanding of space robotics and its applications among the student community, and to co-develop (students and Isro) future technologies needed in the area of space robotics.
The final on-site competition to perform the required tasks is planned to be conducted on the URSC campus in Bengaluru in August 2024, it said.
The space agency is seeking innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers from the youth and will also organise a ‘space challenge’ to select the best proposals.“In line with this vision, U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Isro, solicits from the youth of India, innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers forfuture missions through the conduct of a space robotics challenge with an objective to provide development opportunities in space robotics to the participating entities and to leverage the creative thinking among the youth of our nation for Isro interplanetary missions,” the space agency said in a statement. To provide an opportunity to students in the area of space robotics, the ‘Isro Robotics Challenge-URSC 2024’ will be organised with a tagline ‘Let’s build a space robot’.
The challenge consists of an engineering project where institutional teams build robots to compete in an extra-terrestrial-inspired arena, performing tasks based on real life challenges faced by space robotics. “This is an invitation for the student community for the design and realisation of a ‘Wheeled/Legged Rover’ encompassing the development of complete hardware and software. The solutions provided by the students in IRoC-U 2024 have a greater chance of getting incorporated into ISRO’s future interplanetary robotics missions,” an Isro statement said.
The objectives of the challenge are: to provide a standardised platform for exploring the area of space robotics; to develop a deeper understanding of space robotics and its applications among the student community, and to co-develop (students and Isro) future technologies needed in the area of space robotics.
The final on-site competition to perform the required tasks is planned to be conducted on the URSC campus in Bengaluru in August 2024, it said.
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