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2025 Rover

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Competition

This rover was built to compete in the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC). The competition takes place every august and has 5 tasks the rover must complete. Each task is supposed to provide tasks similar to what a rover may experience on mars. Below are the systems I was directly involved with.

Wheels

This was my first and to date largest project for the team. I went from a couple printed prototypes, selecting one with the team, performing FEA to confirm the strength of the system, having a team sponsor (Protocase) manufacture them and build and test them.

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Arm

With the help of the other mechanical sub team lead, we designed and built this arm on very short notice. Between the slightly under sized motors and minimal time to iterate and perfect tolerances, the performance was not optimal. 

Temperature Board

This board was a collaboration between myself and another member on the team, I designed the PCB and MCU that read all the data from the Arduino Nanos and generated an I2C message for other board, reporting the temperature throughout the rover, and controlled the fans according to this data.

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BMS

This BMS never really got past the prototype stage, and some systems were never fully tested. But the system was able to monitor each cell voltage to prevent undervoltage scenarios, control which battery is on at any time, measure the current from each battery and handle the E-Stop and power switch.

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