IIT Bombay secures 4th position in Indian Rover Design Challenge

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has secured the fourth position in Indian Rover Design Challenge.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has announced that its Mars Rover Team has secured the fourth position in the Indian Rover Design Challenge in which 28 teams from seven countries had participated. This is the first time when the teams were given the challenge to design a rover taking into consideration the Martian conditions. The Martian conditions were organized by the South Asia branch of the Mars society which is the parent body in the US.

The team of students from seven different countries was challenged to design a Mars rover which will be fully equipped and mission ready for operation on Mars. The research-oriented competition is designed for students to explore their minds and spark the innovative design thinking of individuals without putting any constraints on available physical resources.

While speaking to a media house, team leaders of IIT Bombay, Prathuk Joshi and Laher Gada, said that though the competition is called Indian Rover Design Challenge, it has international participation as well. The competition was conducted on July 20.

“The competition basically involved an online submission of an engineering design taking into consideration the Martian conditions and generate a design of a rover. This apart the other main challenge was that on account of coronavirus, the team members had to work remotely,” they said.

The mass of the rover designed by IIT Bombay is about 140 kg with all the components including an instrument to check the possibility of life on Mars.

IIT Bombay has already made a rover, which they said they are planning to improve for participating in the future international student rover competitions.

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