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EXPLORER OF MARS HAS
RETURNED FROM THE USA
İTÜ ROVER TEAM, WHO MAINTAINS ITS PRACTICE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF İSTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY,
ONCE AGAIN DISPLAYED A VERY SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY ROVER CHALLENGE 2019, BETWEEN
THE DATES OF MAY THE 30TH AND JUNE THE 1 ST AT USA.
F
ounded under the
constitution of İTÜ
ARIGE Club, İTÜ
Rover Team was es-
tablished as student project
team that would design,
produce and develop robots
for national and internation-
al robotic competitions. In
2014 İTÜ Rover Team, with
its ARISAT Team has won
the World Championship on
The Cansat Model Satellite
Competition, and was ranked
at the top 3 with its ARIGE
Team at the Robot Challenge
Contest in 2016.
İTÜ Rover Team is currently
uniting different students
from different faculties
and designing, producing
and developing unmanned
land vehicles that will be
used on the expeditions
on the Planet Mars and
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participating competitions
in Europe and USA. İTÜ
Rover Team, once again
represented Turkey success-
fully with the sponsorship
of Turkish Machinery at the
University Rover Challenge,
between the dates of May
the 30th and June the 1st
at USA.
RANKED AS 14 TH
BETWEEN 84 TEAMS
Targeting to contribute to
Turkey’s first planet expedition
vehicle, İTÜ Rover Team was
able to continue its success
just like in the previous years
and pass the preselection
stage between the 84 teams
and deserved to be the only
Turkish team to compete in
the final round of the compe-
tition. At URC ’19, İTÜ Rover
Team competed with three
basic systems and had earned
86,13 points with its ‘System
Acceptable Review’ video and
was ranked 14 th between 84 ri-
vals, after the points it earned
after four different missions.