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title: Robotic Mission to Mars
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type: page
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tags: C#, ASP.NET, MVC3, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Computer Vision
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link: https://www.vssec.vic.edu.au/rmtm-challenge-enrichment/
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image: https://www.vssec.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/detail-image-3-3.jpg
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summary: An interactive educational game which simulates a Robotic Mission to Mars, including control of a real-life robot!
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location: /cv.01
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template: cv
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This was one of my favourite projects to work on, despite the frustrations.
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A cloud-based application for the Victorian Space Science Education Center (VSSEC),
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which would allow a class of secondary school children log in, be assigned various
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mission roles and run a simulated Mars Rover mission.
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The kicker: students actually ended up controlling a physical rover robot that would
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drive around VSSEC's on-site Mars simulation area.
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It was a technical challenge to run 12+ users concurrently viewing the same set of
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data, and issuing requests and instructions to each other. Data was partially plotted
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in advance, and partially randomised. There were also random events like dust storms
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or electromagnetic interference, which the students would have to cooperate and
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coordinate to overcome.
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Plus the added technical challenge of interfacing with VSSEC's rover, as well as
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computer vision data to track its physical location on the ground. It would've been
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so much easier to simulate that data along with the rest, but you can't beat the
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coolness factor of driving a real robot and seeing the live feed from its camera.
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Also, once development was almost complete, we recieved graphic designs from a
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design agency, which required a lot of re-working to the front-end to make it fit
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the final design. It ended up looking great, though. |