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A team of undergraduate and honours students from the 成人大片 has been awarded third prize and US$75,000 in the聽, as well as an Innovation Award for its work on critical challenges in the competition.

鈥淥ur team,聽Team 成人大片, which was the only one from Australia to participate in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge, competed against teams from the world鈥檚 top universities, as well as corporate and private groups,鈥� said 成人大片鈥檚 Associate Professor John Culton who is Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources.

鈥淭he participants were challenged to design code to control a fleet of different lunar robots that had to locate, excavate, load, and transport water ice, and other volatile substances, to a lunar landing craft.鈥�

The Space Robotics Challenge is a virtual competition which aims to advance robotic software and autonomous capabilities for space exploration missions on the surface of extraterrestrial objects, such as distant planets or moons. The challenge was undertaken in a NASA simulation of the lunar south polar region.

"By participating in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge the students have engaged in the next phase of human space exploration."Professor Anton Middelberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)

A 40-person team comprising both students and staff from the University鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, competed in the qualifying round throughout 2020 alongside 113 other teams. Only 22 teams were selected to compete for the first prize.聽The University鈥檚 core team comprised primarily masters, PhD, and honours students from a variety of countries and cultures.

Team 成人大片 was also awarded one of only two NASA 鈥淚nnovation Awards鈥�.

鈥淭he NASA engineers recognised the team鈥檚 particularly novel solution to critical challenges currently confronting NASA as they prepare for lunar surface operations in the next several years,鈥� said Professor Culton.

鈥淭he code that the team developed could be used in NASA鈥檚 Artemis human spaceflight program, which aims to send people to the Moon by 2024, to make its surface rover fleet more autonomous.

鈥淲hile NASA hopes to use the cutting-edge capabilities of this code on the Moon and Mars, the code could also be used on Earth for autonomous mining operations, disaster response and recovery, robotic agriculture, construction, and other applications.鈥�

Professor Anton Middelberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), 成人大片聽congratulated the team.

鈥湷扇舜笃� students are encouraged to excel in their studies and this great result shows that they have a bright future ahead of them as leaders in their chosen field,鈥� he said.

鈥淏y participating in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge the students have engaged in the next phase of human space exploration.鈥�

The University鈥檚 participation in the NASA Robotics Challenge was organised as part of the University鈥檚聽.