Sooner Rover Team

The URC is comprised of four competition missions and the System Acceptance Review (SAR).
The SAR and missions are worth 100 points each with a total of 500 points and contribute to the final ranking of the competition. All teams are required to submit a SAR by Friday, March 3, 2023. The SAR demonstrates REMI’s sub-systems’ abilities to perform each of the missions, the overall system design, and our progress in completing a final system. The SAR consists of a written and video component and is a competition milestone in which submissions will be judged and ranked, determining qualification for the on-field competition in Utah.
This video is our submission for last year’s SAR, in which 36 of the highest-scoring teams were invited to compete.

Donate

If you would like to donate, you can do so through the oufoundation website here.

Learn more about how to become a sponsor here.

If you would like to join the team, general body meetings are held every other week -- time and place to be determined.
The sub teams meet:
CS team: TBD
Electrical: TBD
Mechanical: TBD
Science: TBD

Who Are We?

The Sooner Rover Team is an interdisciplinary student competition team of over 60 students working together to design, build, and test a mock-up Mars rover. Every year, we compete against other teams from top universities around the world at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah.

We are proud that every line of code, mechanical component, and electrical circuit is entirely student created, implemented, and proven.

What Do We Do?

Each year, our team participates in the University Rover Challenge hosted by The Mars Society. The competition consists of four separate missions: extreme retrieval, fine manipulation, autonomous navigation, and science. Our arm aids us by dragging toolboxes and manipulating switches, a GPS and cameras mounted on the rover help to navigate autonomously, and our science package allows us to test for life and collect samples for analysis.

Together, these technologies allow us to succeed in missions mimicking realistic scenarios for a rover on Mars.