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Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 2

A CAD crosssection of the Rover science module

In the last blog post, we have gone through functional requirements (FR) listing, Morph chart brainstorming, constraints listing and design parameters (DP) selections. You can check out the previous installment...

Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 1

This blog is going to introduce you to engineering design by providing a step-by-step guide, using the rover science module as an example. I (Nora) will walk you through...

BLUEsat’s ERC Ventures and Adventures

The NUMBAT Rover arm picking up a tool against a background of Red "Mars" soil at the European Rover Challenge.

October 24, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Anita Smirnov

Our trip to Poland was one hell of an adventure, with a lot of on-the-spot engineering, things breaking and being fixed (or "fixed" in some cases), panicked runs carrying...

ROS Transforms (TF) Part 2: Some Useful Tools

The BLUEtongue 2.0 Rover visualized on a 3D Plane in ROS's RViz tool.

August 15, 2018 August 14, 2018 By Harry J.E Day

Welcome to the next installment in my series on the ROS transform system (ROS tf). In my previous article I explained how BLUEsat's Rovers all run on the Robotics...

BLUEsat Presents the NUMBAT Rover

The NUMBAT Mar Rover on UNSW's Scientia Lawn

August 5, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Anita Smirnov

https://youtu.be/XpWTFcCIU4sBLUEsat is proud to present the NUMBAT Rover for the European Rover Challenge (ERC) 2018! We have made a lot of design revisions and improvements in the past two...

ROS Transforms (TF) Part 1: An Introduction

BLUEsat's BLUEtongue Rover represented as a 3D model in RViz with each transform being marked by a set of axes.

At BLUEsat UNSW, the Off-World Robotics Software Team uses the Robotics Operating System (ROS) as the basis for much of our code. The modularity, communications framework, and existing packages...

Modular Systems – The basis of the NUMBAT Rover

April 25, 2018 January 1, 2019 By Thomas Renneberg

Modular designs are not a new concept, in fact they are used just about everywhere from your humble desktop computer to scaffolding on the side of a building. But...

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Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 2

Engineering Design Guide (Science Module) Part 1

BLUEsat’s ERC Ventures and Adventures

ROS Transforms (TF) Part 2: Some Useful Tools

BLUEsat Presents the NUMBAT Rover

ROS Transforms (TF) Part 1: An Introduction

Modular Systems – The basis of the NUMBAT Rover

Prototyping the New Joystick

A Dummy’s Guide to Debugging ROS Systems.

Using a CNC

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