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ISRO Robotic Challenge - URSC 2025
ISRO Robotics Challenge-URSC 2024 (IRoC-U 2024) provided an opportunity to the student community to showcase their engineering problem solving capabilities for space missions. The student community responded to IRoC-U 2024 with great enthusiasm, and its unprecedented success served as an inspiration for the next challenge IRoC-U 2025.
One of ISRO’s future goal is the exploration of Martian surface and as a part of Martian surface exploration, an Autonomous Aerial Vehicle will carry out scientific activities. ISRO solicits from the youth of India, innovative ideas and designs in the area of navigation for future missions through the conduct of Robotics Challenge.
The IRoC-U 2025 challenges the students to develop ‘Autonomous Navigation for an Aerial Vehicle (ANAV)’ without any external navigation aid like GNSS, pseudolite or reflector arrays with a tagline ‘Fly me on MARS’
The challenge on Martian surface is non-availability of any external navigation aid like GNSS, pseudolite or reflector arrays. Hence, a dedicated navigation technique required for aerial vehicles for exploration of Martian surface. Hence current challenge focuses only on developing and demonstrating navigation and guidance techniques rather than building aerial vehicles. Students can use/develop any available (off-the-shelf) aerial vehicle complying with existing DGCA rules.
The student community needs to develop and demonstrate the autonomous capabilities of ANAV:
- for navigation and guidance without the aid of any external navigation.
- to identify safe landing spots and perform stable take-off and landing.
ANAV has to perform the following tasks during the various rounds of the challenge.
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Stable Vertical take-off, hover and landing.
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ANAV shall scan the arena to identify the boundary, and the safe spots for landing.
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ANAV shall choose the sequence and stable landing at each safe spot.
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After safe landing, the ANAV shall return to the home position.
Refer the rule book for the details. Rule book will be updated time to time as the challenge rounds progresses. The participants are requested to follow the latest version of the rulebook available in the web portal.
Image: Illustration of ANAV arena.
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