WVU Robotics Team

WVU Robotics Team We are a team of undergraduate and graduate students at West Virginia University's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

The challenge we are competing in is to design, build, and test a robot designed to operated some 2000 miles away from Morgantown, in Houston Tx and be able to pick up rock specimens up to .15 kg and collect them in a 1 hour time limit. The robot is required to be 1 meter by 1 meter by 0.5 meters tall and not weighing over 45 kg. It must also be able to transverse obstacles 10 cm tall and climb a slope of 33%.

Mounted up and ready for testing
03/29/2017

Mounted up and ready for testing

Frame finished for the ice drilling platform!
03/04/2017

Frame finished for the ice drilling platform!

Test rig complete, starting the assembly of the base
02/22/2017

Test rig complete, starting the assembly of the base

10/28/2016
Second place finish for the Mountaineers!
05/27/2016

Second place finish for the Mountaineers!

05/26/2016

Great day out on the rock yard today. Still in awe of the Sooners' run. That was incredible!

Check out our competition livestream today at 3:15 ET!http://robo-ops.nianet.org/livestream-public-engagement/
05/25/2016

Check out our competition livestream today at 3:15 ET!

http://robo-ops.nianet.org/livestream-public-engagement/

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The WVU Mountaineering Robotics Team (MRT) is a a group of dedicated students ranging from from Freshman to Graduate level. The MRT competed in several NASA-based robotics competitions and have an impressive track record.

This year we are returning to the RASC-AL Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting challenge to showcase a mining rig that is capable of drilling through a simulated Martian overburden to extract water from the ice below. This year an additional challenge has been added where tougher elements have been added to the overburden. A drilling system must be able to pe*****te these overburden layers while being able to identify the densities of each layer.