Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP): Lunabotics
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 10/06/2022

Each year NASA hosts a robotics competition challenging university teams to build a robot that can endure the hazards of extra-terrestrial mining operations. The VIP Lunabotics team designs, builds, tests and prepares an autonomous robot for this lunar mining competition. During the competition, robots must complete the following tasks within a 10-minute window: collect and deposit the most gravel by mass, autonomously traverse simulated lunar terrain and avoid obstacles, and effectively manage the dust produced during mining. 

The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to earn academic credit while engaging in research and design projects related to active research areas of Purdue faculty members and national, international, and industry-sponsored design challenges. First-year through senior students can participate on interdisciplinary and vertically-integrated teams with faculty and graduate student mentors for multiple semesters to address these real-world research and design challenges. 

VIP Lunabotics Course: https://engineering.purdue.edu/VIP/teams/lbot 
Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP): https://engineering.purdue.edu/VIP


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