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https://www.vssec.vic.edu.au/rmtm-challenge-enrichment/ | https://www.vssec.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/detail-image-3-3.jpg | An interactive educational game which simulates a Robotic Mission to Mars, including control of a real-life robot! | cv |
Robotic Mission to Mars
This was one of my favourite projects to work on, despite the frustrations. A cloud-based application for the Victorian Space Science Education Center (VSSEC), which would allow a class of secondary school children log in, be assigned various mission roles and run a simulated Mars Rover mission.
The kicker: students actually ended up controlling a physical rover robot that would drive around VSSEC's on-site Mars simulation area.
It was a technical challenge to run 12+ users concurrently viewing the same set of data, and issuing requests and instructions to each other. Data was partially plotted in advance, and partially randomised. There were also random events like dust storms or electromagnetic interference, which the students would have to cooperate and coordinate to overcome.
Plus the added technical challenge of interfacing with VSSEC's rover, as well as computer vision data to track its physical location on the ground. It would've been so much easier to simulate that data along with the rest, but you can't beat the coolness factor of driving a real robot and seeing the live feed from its camera.
Also, once development was almost complete, we recieved graphic designs from a design agency, which required a lot of re-working to the front-end to make it fit the final design. It ended up looking great, though.