URC Lander Research
Read the rules first: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlLfx9sDniEUvQr1B3vMOcHAvCPzXo06/view
We are building a URC Lander to simulate the Equipment Servicing Mission as part of the URC Challenge. Our rover will need to perform several dexterous operations on a mock-up equipment system. The rover shall have to travel up to 0.25 km across relatively flat terrain to reach the equipment. The equipment servicing mission will involve delivering a cached science sample to a lander and performing maintenance on the lander. It will include some subset of the following sub-tasks:
- Pick up the cache container and transport it to the lander rocket. The cache will have a handle at least 10 cm long and not more than 5 cm in diameter. Cache will weigh
less than 5 kg. - Open a drawer on the lander. Insert cache into a close-fitting space in the drawer, and close the drawer.
- Tighten captive screw to secure drawer. Screw will be a 5/16” Allen (hex) head. Teams may build the hex driver into the rover, or pick up the screwdriver provided
- Undo a latch on a hinged panel of the lander and open panel.
- Type commands on a keyboard and follow directions on a computer display. Typing must be correct for full points, but spelling mistakes or repeated letters
may be corrected using the delete button or ignored for partial points. - Operate a joystick (4-position, spring-return) to direct an antenna while observing a gauge. The gauge will be up to 20cm away from the joystick.
- Pick up and insert a rugged USB memory stick into a USB (type A) slot on the lander.
- Push buttons, flip switches, turn knobs.
Specifications
→ Equipment will be between 1.5m in height and the ground.
The height of most of the gadgets is a bit under waist level of average human being.
→ Teams will receive points for every sub-task completed successfully. Teams will have 30 minutes to complete the mission.
Features that our Equipment Servicing Lander build should have, based on what we know above
- A Drawer that you can pull open and close
- This drawer should be big enough to insert a container that's around 5kg
- There will be a screwdriver slot to untighten and tighten
- A sort of door latch that the robot should be able to open, a.k.a. access panel
- Put a keyboard hidden behind this door latch
- Display above the keyboard, to show that the robot can use the keyboard with a lot of precision (typing, for ex: "URC")
- Different controls on a panel
- Joystick
- Clickable buttons,
- flip switches
- Turn knobs
- Slot to insert USB (type A)
- Maybe...
- Large power switch → this was on the URC2018 Lander
- thing that turns (like a driving wheel) → I saw this on the Michigan Robotics Team