{"id":24755,"date":"2019-04-15T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacecenter.org\/?page_id=24755"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:50:41","slug":"space-robotics-challenge-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spacecenter.org\/space-robotics-challenge\/space-robotics-challenge-phase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"24755\" class=\"elementor elementor-24755\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a90a103 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a90a103\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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NASA is developing a variety of autonomous robots to build the infrastructure before humans even get there. This capability will allow future astronauts to focus on more important projects as we explore the cosmos.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-119d021 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"119d021\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>You can be part of NASA\u2019s mission to develop the next generation of robots through our Space Robotics Challenge. Space Center Houston and NASA\u2019s Centennial Challenges Program have partnered to present the Space Robotics Challenge.<\/p><p>The Space Robotics Challenge focuses on developing software to increase the autonomy of mobile robots during space travel and on other planets and moons.<\/p><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacecenter.org\/space-robotics-challenge\/space-robotics-challenge-phase-1\/\">first phase of the Space Robotics Challenge<\/a>\u00a0took place in 2017 and focused specifically on NASA\u2019s Valkyrie robot (also known as Robonaut 5 and R5). 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Get a glimpse into the future of robotics and celebrate the conclusion of this pioneering competition at the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Celebration.<\/p><h4>SEPT. 26 ACTIVITIES<\/h4><p>Watch a live student robotics competition, similar to a hackathon, from 1:30 \u2013 4:30 p.m. in the main plaza.<\/p><p>Elementary, middle school, and high school students from the greater Houston area will put their coding skills to work to navigate a robot through a space exploration challenge. This competition features members of the Finalist teams from the NASA Space Robotics Challenge mentoring a team of students to develop code for their robots to complete tasks on a giant lunar map.<\/p><h4>SEPT. 27 ACTIVITIES<\/h4><p>For the first time at Space Center Houston, test out the new Sphero RVR Programmable Robots. Operate these all-terrain, customizable robotic rovers on our robotics field.<\/p><p>Learn about current NASA robotics projects during our State of the Science panel presentation 1-2 p.m. in Space Center Theater. Speakers include Kim Hambuchen, Branch Chief for Robotics Systems Technology at NASA Johnson Space Center; Dustin Nottage, US Army Corps of Engineers industrial engineer; and Ramavarapu &#8220;RS&#8221; Sreenivas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor.<\/p><p>The celebration concludes with the long-awaited award ceremony announcing the winners of the NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2 in the Mission Briefing Center 2-3 p.m.<\/p><p>During the ceremony, hear from a variety of speakers\u00a0about the importance of partnerships and collaboration to inspire innovation, and learn about the goal of the challenge and what NASA hopes to gain from Monsi Roman, NASA Centennial Challenges Program Manager.<\/p><p>Activities are included in general admission. 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My educational background consists of a Bachelor\u2019s in mechanical engineering and Master of Science in electrical engineering. I have around 30 years of industry experience in the area of automation and robotics developing software algorithms, mechanical design, and working with optics and electronics. I have been involved in semiconductor capital equipment, material testing, disk drives, and ultra-high vacuum. I hold patents related to image processing algorithms, precision machine design, and machine vision. I am the coauthor of IEEE publication (related to autonomous vehicles). ROS, Gazebo, Docker, and Linux were all new to me at the start of the contest.<\/p><p><strong>Columbia Space Initiative<\/strong><br \/><em>New York City, New York<\/em><br \/>The Columbia University Space Initiative is a student space technology and outreach club founded on Sep.. 27, 2015. It serves as an umbrella organization for mission teams involved in everything from nano-satellite mechanical design to building biomedical payloads for research in outer space. The robotics team of the Columbia Space Initiative consists of undergraduate and graduate computer science students at Columbia University and was advised by Professor Tony Dear. After finishing their submission for the challenge, the team went on to continue astrobotic research with the Columbia University Robotics Club.<\/p><p><strong>Future Robotics Laboratory<\/strong><br \/><em>Crofton, Maryland<\/em><br \/>Future Robotics Laboratory is comprised of four young professionals who all met at some point during their education and share an interest in robotics. All four team members have an engineering background, and most of the team are currently pursuing a career in the field of robotics.<\/p><p><strong>God and Golem, Inc.<\/strong><br \/><em>Irvine, California<\/em><br \/>Bradley C has more than 10 years of experience in software development, having completed in AI challenges ranging from NLP chatbots to DL classification and autonomous ROS bots!<\/p><p><strong>Lycanthropic Lunar Lunatics (L3)<\/strong><br \/><em>Tokyo, Japan<\/em><br \/>Our team, currently based in Japan, consists of aerospace and software professionals. We all met while previously working together on rover development at ispace, a Japanese lunar transportation company. Our members also have experience with Mars rover development, satellite image analysis, and machine learning.<\/p><p><strong>Mingo Mountain Robotics<\/strong><br \/><em>Kettle Falls, Washington<\/em><br \/>I was part of the Space Robotics Challenge Phase 1. It was a crazy amount of work, and I loved every minute of it. I can&#8217;t help myself. I mentor a First Robotics Competition (FRC) high school robotics team and help students create their competition robots each year. Localization will be the biggest challenge of this competition, and I have some ideas on solving that problem.<\/p><p><strong>Mountaineers<\/strong><br \/><em>Morgantown, West Virgina<\/em><br \/>Team Mountaineers is a group of robotics students and faculty from the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University (WVU). Our team goal is to strengthen WVU&#8217;s robotics program through our participation. In doing this, our team objectives are to develop a new group of diverse robotics leaders at WVU and to capture the knowledge acquired during our participation in shareable manner for the benefit of WVU robotics and the outside world. Let&#8217;s go Mountaineers!<\/p><p><strong>Olympus Mons<\/strong><br \/><em>Bareclona, Spain<\/em><br \/>The team is composed of PAL Robotics&#8217; employees, who have chosen to spend some of their weekends, holidays, and nights participating in the competition. Our goal is to apply our day-to-day work to the competition robots, to learn and try new things that can improve our company robots and to have fun while doing it.The team was created for participating in the Space Robotics Challenge Phase 1, which we finished in third place. We&#8217;re looking forward to improving our result this year!<\/p><p><strong>PRIME<\/strong><br \/><em>Houston, Texas<\/em><br \/>I live in Houston, and am currently attending the University of Houston as a computer science major. I build robots and love 3-D printing. I&#8217;ve been interested in robotics and automation since high school. As a freshman in college, I participated in Phase 1 of the Space Robotics Challenge. As a sophomore, I participated in the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition for two years. In parallel, I constructed a massive room-sized 3-D printer and recently have consolidated my efforts towards the ANA Avatar XPrize, a four-year competition for the creation of humanoid robotic avatars.<\/p><p><strong>Purdue-Hongik Team<\/strong><br \/><em>West Lafayette, Indiana, &amp; Sejong, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea<\/em><br \/>The Purdue-Hongik Team is an international collaborative team formed by the research group of Dr. Byung-Cheol Min at Purdue University (SMART Lab) and the research group of Dr. Jonghoek Kim at Hongik University in South Korea. The two research groups have been collaborating for a long time on the topic of robotics and multi-robot systems. Our mission is to disseminate to society through this competition the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in multi-robot systems that have been built up through our collaboration, and to further advance new robotic technologies suitable for the space environment.<\/p><p><strong>Robotika<\/strong><br \/><em>Annapolis, Maryland<\/em><br \/>Team members are seasoned IT professionals, computer scientists, and robotics enthusiasts. We&#8217;ve drawn on our deep experience conceiving, designing, and testing autonomous Earth-bound vehicles in our work for the competition.<\/p><p><strong>Runaround Robotics<\/strong><br \/><em>Cedar Falls, Iowa &amp; Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/em><br \/>Robotics and software specialists representing the USA and Sri Lanka make up this team, named after the science fiction short story &#8220;Runaround&#8221; by Isaac Asimov. Runaround Robotics team is confident that its expertise in software perception, planning, and implementation is well-suited to complete the challenge tasks. The main goal of the team is to learn about and actively contribute to the exciting field of autonomous robotics in both terrestrial and outer space applications.<\/p><p><strong>Team Capricorn<\/strong><br \/><em>Worcester, Massachusetts<\/em><br \/>Team Capricorn comprises 16 undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We have backgrounds in robotics engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering. Many of us are FIRST alumni. We love to compete, and participated in the first NASA Space Robotics Challenge and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge.<\/p><p><strong>Team MoonrAIders<\/strong><br \/><em>Johnstown, Colorado (remote team)<\/em><br \/>Our team is made up of interdisciplinary members coming from fields such as machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. We have members from over seven countries and nine institutions. Together we are excited to tackle the challenge of developing simulated rovers to find resources on the Moon. Our team is proudly supported by SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) Labs.<\/p><p><strong>Team Olrun<\/strong><br \/><em>Evansville, Indiana<\/em><br \/>The name Olrun was inspired by Space Robotics Challenge Phase 1, where the robot was named Valkyrie. Olrun is one of the Valkyries in Norse mythology. I am back as a one-person team.<\/p><p><strong>Team Schmidty<\/strong><br \/><em>Bridgeville, Pennsylvania<\/em><br \/>I am a mechanical engineer by degree but software engineer by trade specializing in robotics currently for the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University. In particular, I have a lot of experience working with GNC, communications, and middleware. C++, C#, and Python are my primary areas of expertise, but I also have extensive web and database experience. I have always enjoyed the challenge of the highly technical problems in science and technology, and stretching my skills to solve such problems.<\/p><p><strong>Team Swarmathon<\/strong><br \/><em>Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/em><br \/>We were brought together by a previous NASA robotics competition and decided to continue our connection by entering this challenge. We have members from the University of New Mexico and Cabrillo College. We are mostly computer science undergraduates and graduate students.<\/p><p><strong>Team Whalers<\/strong><br \/><em>Nantucket, Massachusetts<\/em><br \/>Team Whalers started as a four-person boy band covering hits from the greatest R&amp;B vocal group of all time, Boyz II Men. After several failed performances and dramatic fallout, only Jed and Will remained. Widely considered the least talented singers of the group, they fell back onto their expertise in robotics. Will is a talented software engineer and physicist. Jed is also on the team.<\/p><p><strong>The Luminosity Lab<\/strong><br \/><em>Tempe, Arizona<\/em><br \/>The Luminosity Lab at Arizona State University (ASU) is an interdisciplinary research and development lab driven by hand-selected teams of high-performing students from ASU who design, build, and deploy novel solutions to address some of the world\u2019s most pressing challenges. Built on a \u201cSkunkworks\u201d model of innovation, we take risks, strategically leverage the resources and experts of a Research I university, and produce unconventional innovations capable of impacting society.<\/p><p><strong>The University of Adelaide<\/strong><br \/><em>Adelaide, South Australia<\/em><br \/>The University of Adelaide participates in numerous technical competitions and is familiar with the NASA Centennial Challenge series.<\/p><p><strong>UHCL-SJC<\/strong><br \/><em>Houston, Texas<\/em><br \/>We are a team of undergraduate students from the University of Houston Clear Lake and San Jacinto College North.<\/p><p><strong>Walk Softly<\/strong><br \/><em>Niskayuna, New York<\/em><br \/>Team Walk Softly joins the fray from upstate New York. Team members Steve Gray and Shiraj Sen are coworkers at GE Global Research who are competing here on their own time. 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