About Boiler Robotics

 

Boiler Robotics Club encourages students to foster innovation through hands-on experience in the process of competing in Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge. Throughout the process of building Mars rovers, members build engineering, technical, entrepreneurship, and soft skills as well as meet other like-minded people passionate about space exploration, engineering, and innovation.

BRC consists of five project teams (Communication & Intelligence, Robotic Arm, Chassis & Suspension, Drivetrain & Power, and Biological Payload) as well as a business team.

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30+ Members

The team focuses on multidisciplinary learning and member’s majors include: ME, EE, CS, MSE, RoET, AAE, EET, MET, Psychology, Planetary Science, Biology, Chemistry, Agriculture, and Business.

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10+ Industry Mentors

The team has mentors from Northrop Grumman, Toyota, and Microsoft as well as graduate Purdue students and faculty advisors. 

Technical Skills

Mechanical

  • Designing on CAD (SolidWorks)

  • Rapid Prototyping Methods

  • FEA Analysis

  • Manufacturing and Assembling

Electrical

  • PCB Fabrication

  • Schematic Design (EAGLE)

  • Designing the Power Supply

  • Raspberry Pi & Sensors

Software

  • Coding languages (Python)

  • Robot Operating System

  • Computer Vision

  • Guidance & Navigation

Biology/Chemistry

  • Astrobiology

  • Designing Bio-Chemical Experiments

  • Analyzing Experiment Data

Business

  • Project Management

  • Industry Relations

  • Sponsorship

  • Recruiting/Outreach/Social Events

Graphics

  • Designing Website

  • Managing Social Media

  • Creating logo and T-shirts

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About the University
Rover Challenge

Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge (URC) is a competition in which teams create Mars rovers capable of performing various challenges in a simulated Martian environment. As one of the world’s largest space vehicle/rover competition, URC features 84 teams from 13 countries and qualified teams compete each year at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah. Mission tasks vary year-to-year but typically focus on autonomous terrain traversal, habitat equipment servicing, presence-of-life extraction and detection, and extreme cargo retrieval and deposition. 

Competition Website