The Rover Decal will focus on design, testing, and implementation of a fully functional rover prototype (including mechanical, electronics, and software). Students will be exposed to the basics of CAD Design, FEA, Electronics, and controls with the end goal a complete rover. There will be a total of five assignments each of that build off of each other which culminate with the final prototype build. The assignments will start with CAD designs of each subsystem before bringing everything together into a full prototype. Once this first iteration has been built, each group will be tasked with making one modification/improvement to their design based on what they learned from the build process.

Meetings will be held on Tuesdays and Thursday from 6:30 to 8:00pm in Hearst Annex B1. The meeting focuses will alternate between Mechanical and Electrical oriented topics. The first meeting of each week will typically focus on new mechanical topics and introducing/developing the skills needed for the assignments (includes FEA, designing for manufacturing, part definition/selection, etc.). During this meeting, electronics groups will either be following along, working on a guided practice, or working on the rover design. The second meeting of the week will generally focus on software, electronics, and control. Mechanical groups will have a similar set of options as the electronics groups did during the first meeting.