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ESA holds robotic vehicle competition
Paris | July 02, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
The European Space Agency says it has selected eight European university proposals for development of robotic vehicles capable of exploring the moon. ESA's General Studies Program challenged university students to develop a robotic vehicle capable of working in difficult terrain. The eight university teams were chosen for funding to proceed to the design stage of ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge. The vehicles are required to weigh no more than 220 pounds, consume no more than 2 kilowatts of power and occupy a volume of no more than 17.6 cubic feet with deployable appendages stowed. The vehicle will be remotely operated by a workstation placed outside a simulated crater and with no direct visibility of the crater or rim, the ESA said. Teams selected to proceed with the design phase are from the University of Bremen and Jacobs University, both of Bremen, Germany; the Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain; the University of Oulu, Finland; the University of Pisa and the Advanced School of Saint Anna, Pisa, Italy; The Surrey Space Center at the University of Surrey in Britain; and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. (UPI)
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