Hindustan Mars Rover Team was initiated in 2014 to build a prototype of Mars Rover for taking part in Universty Rover Challenge by Mars Desert Research Station at Utah, USA.
As a core and primary software developer, I was responsible for finding the best possible electronic and software system for the hardware design.
The goals of the team was to build a rover that would traverse wirelessly for a distance of around 2 to 4 KM from the base station, pick some objects and having many sensors onboard to monitor in the base station.
We built the software stack using processing package of JAVA that allows to make GUI and also has communication module to send and receive data to Arduino.
The Onboard system had Arduino placed with different sensors like GPS, temperature, gyro, speedometer, accelerometer, etc.
We had a separate system to process video from multiple sources in the rover to the base station.
The major problem faced during this version of the rover was the communication and imaging module, which we solved in the next version of our rover.
In the competition, we completed all the tasks and were placed 18th in the world overall.