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The University’s entry into the Air Force Research Lab Challenge could help our nation s troops.
May 16, 2021
DULUTH, Minn.- What has four wheels, two propellers, two cameras, and can climb walls? The newest rover designed by UMD students to deploy cameras or sensors in places hostile to a human operator.
“When you think, ‘oh I need to get something high up in the air,’ you think a plane or a helicopter or something like that you don’t really think a little car with some propellers on it,” said Corey Knutson.
The University’s entry into the Air Force Research Lab Challenge has student’s excited not only about winning a third year, but for how their invention could help our nation’s troops.
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The students designed the rover for this year s U.S. Air Force Research Lab Challenge.
May 10, 2021
DULUTH, Minn.- From the minds of UMD Students comes a robot that can climb walls, carry and drop off items their entry in this year’s Air Force Research Lab Challenge.
The challenge was to design a remote controlled, autonomous robot that could climb walls and deploy sensors or cameras in hostile territory.
UMD’S rover is outfitted with a moveable camera for visibility, and four wheels and two propellers which allow the driver to actually drive it up walls to deliver payloads in places a human can’t reach, or where they could be compromised.
Created: May 10, 2021 08:34 PM
A school project at UMD could be used to help our military forces. Students over the semester have been inventing what resembles a deployment bot, and just finished it a couple of weeks ago.
It was created as part of this year s Air Force Research Lab Challenge, which is a national competition.
It is controlled with a remote, and not only can it wheel around on the ground, it can also climb walls.
WDIO-TV You have two drone motors on there. Together, they produce 20 pounds of thrust, so if you imagine I m standing there kind of holding it on the wall is what the propellors are actually doing is throwing air, and 20 pounds of thrust. The bot weighs about 12-13 pounds, so you have more than enough thrust to actually help keep it against the wall, said UMD graduating senior Jesse Bragge.