Brno Mars Rover
Let's beginPreparing for ERC 2025
Brno, Czech Republic
About The Rover Project
We are a team of active and ambitious students from Brno University of Technology. Our longstanding desire to be part of something that would eventually outgrow the bounds of our research group or even the entire department has led us to discovering an ultimate robotics challenge.
Combined with our passion for everything space related, it was a clear choice.
At the end of 2023 we've started to prepare our competition rover designed to take part of 2025 European Rover Challenge. We've successfuly pitched our plan to the students of our study programme and are ready to take more on board!
Fully Autonomous
Our rover is designed for autonomous operation from the ground up. We're utilizing our expertise in autonomous robotics systems designed for the usage on Earth and looking for ways of their efficient usage on other space bodies.
Mars Exploration
Mars environment is harsh, but it is prohibitively expensive to send heavy equipment there. We're finding a balance between robustness and weight - the finished rover won't weight more than 50kg with all equipment included.
Freya Rover
Mechanical construction
We're basing our mechanical construction on off-the-shelf aluminum extrusions. They provide an ideal balance between weight, robustness and price.
Docs: Chassis
Manipulator
Currently, we are building a 6 degrees of freedom manipulator separately so testing and software development can be decoupled from the rover development.
Docs: Manipulator
Autonomous Navigation
Our main expertise lies in both indoor and outdoor autonomous navigation. We're equipping the rover with everything it'll need to complete majority of its tasks autonomously.
Ongoing Projects
Science Task
Developing a system for the collection and preservation of extraterrestrial regolith samples. Designing, construction and animation of a device that will be able to drill a piece of rock while preserving its layering, transfer the samples to a storage space and there take basic measurements of mass, volume, moisture, etc.
Partnerships
