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Tuesday, 09 January 2024 12:13

Martian Robotic Rover 2.0 Workshop

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology organized and conducted the second version of the Martian robotic rover workshop for participants aged 15 to 25 during the period Dec. 25-27, 2023.

The workshop lasted for three days. Day 1 was for fully soldering all the wire connections to the motors, carried out by the participants and assembling the robot's chassis. Day 2 was an introduction and briefing to all the electronic components and assembling them on the robot with the help of a full schematic diagram designed exclusively for this rover. Day 2 ended with a simple code test run through Arduino Sketch which tested all the motors for its forward and backward motions. Day 3 was entirely taken up for coding by giving the participants an outline frame of the code but with empty spaces for the variables to experiment with their rovers with multiple inputs and outputs. The final day also included a 30-second competition in which each team was given 30 seconds to run the rover on the Martian platform with obstacles attached to see which car went through the 30 seconds with 0 collisions.