Poly1 Rover:

The Cal Poly Mars Rover project is creating a fleet of near-identical rovers operating collaboratively to research the surface of Mars. Over the last six years, teams at Cal Poly have been developing vehicles to be launched upon the commercialization of interplanetary travel. Two of these vehicles are to take the roles of ‘Scout’ and ‘Relay’ with the most significant difference being their respective ‘arms.’ The ‘Scout’ will have a robotic arm that interacts with objects on the surface while the ‘Relay’ will have a fixed arm, equipped with a StarLink antenna to communicate with orbiting satellites as seen in Figure 2. The primary goal of this project is to redesign the rovers’ arms and arm deployment system, and to design the attachment mechanism for the antenna. The Poly Rover lead, Professor Rich Murray, acts as the primary stakeholder for the Senior Project Group listed above.