Field notes — 4 entries
Notes from
the Marscape.
Deep-dives, test-day recaps and the occasional war story — written by the people building the rover.
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Autonomy that finds its own way
How the rover turns stereo images, LiDAR and a handful of markers into a plan — and drives itself to five checkpoints with nobody at the sticks.
#autonomy #ros2 #perception #navigation -
Four wheels, four minds — inside the drivetrain
How the rover's 4WIS/4WID drivetrain turns a joystick nudge into coordinated motion across four independently steered, independently driven wheels.
#drivetrain #ros2 #engineering -
Meet "Barbara", the six-DOF arm
The rover's six-degree-of-freedom manipulator — how it is driven, how it finds its own zero with a camera, and how it avoids tying itself in knots.
#manipulator #ros2 #teleoperation -
What the European Rover Challenge actually asks of a rover
A field guide to the competition we build for — the Marsyard, the five mission types, how teams are scored, and what makes it genuinely hard.
#erc #competition #mars