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ERC Mission
The European Rover Challenge is Europe's leading robotics competition on simulated Martian terrain. Autonomous navigation, manipulation, science: real tasks, real terrain, real judges.
WHAT IT IS
Mars, to scale, in Poland
Every year university teams from around the world bring their rover to a field that reproduces the Martian surface. It is not a demo: it is a competition with timed tasks, judges from the space industry and a score that measures how well the rover actually does its job.
THE FIELD TASKS
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T-01
Navigation
The rover crosses the terrain on its own, with no operator and no GPS, reaching marked waypoints.
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T-02
Science
Collecting and analysing samples to answer geological questions about the site, like a real mission would.
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T-03
Maintenance
Operating a control panel: switches, connectors and instruments designed for human operators.
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T-04
Transport
Finding, picking up and delivering objects on the field, combining mobility and the robotic arm.
FORMAT
The final runs over several days. Each team gets a time window, a remote control station and a single rover for every task. The terrain decides the rest.
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OUR STATUS
Where we stand on this route
Plainly: GALILEO is not yet entered in an edition of the European Rover Challenge. It is the goal we are working towards, and this page describes the competition, not an achievement of ours. What we are building right now is the rover, and the skills to show up with a machine equal to the tasks above.