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Jasionka near Rzeszów / Team from Łódź won the competition of Mars rovers

Raptors team from Lodz University of Technology won the third edition of the competition of Mars rovers European Rover Challenge. The competition was held last weekend in Jasionka near Rzeszow.

Second place in Jasionka went to the team Impuls from Kielce University of Technology, and third to the team McGill from Queens University in Canada. Continuum team from the University of Wroclaw won the Special Award for.

European Rover Challenge (ERC) is a prestigious competition of Mars robots constructed by student teams. ERC is an European version of the event already well known in the scientific world, University Rover Challenge held in the United States. ERC was first organized in 2014.

"65 teams signed up for this year\'s event. 45 teams made it through the first stage of qualifications, and 25 teams competed in the finals. They were teams from Poland, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Bangladesh and India" - told PAP Mateusz Józefowicz, VP of the European Space Foundation Mateusz Józefowicz. Poland was represented by 15 teams.

The teams competed on 450 tonnes of soil in the Exhibition and Congress Centre in Jasionka. The soil, on which rovers moved, was a copy of the surface of Mars

Players controlled rovers without actually seeing their vehicles (for example using cameras). The arena, specially prepared for the competition, became a field of competition in four events, which reflected the actual tasks performed by rovers on the Martian surface. "We change the terrain every year. We assume that constructors have to be flexible. They can not predict everything" - noted Józefowicz.

ERC is the biggest space robotics event in Europe. The organizers of the competition are the European Space Foundation and the Podkarpackie Province.

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