Odysseus

Team Odysseus • Advanced ORT Team

Who Are We?

We’re Team Odysseus, 10 University of Bristol students, making the university’s debut in the advanced stream of the UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trials. Our team are currently building our Mars rover for testing at Airbus in July. Check out the gallery of snapshots and details below to see what we’re up to.

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What Are We Making?

Latest Renders of Our Full Rover

A render of the rover on a dried lake bed
Side Render
Top Render
Top Render
Back Render
Back Render

Explore our Subsystems

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Mechanical Subsystem

Drill Arm

Our drill arm, designed to manoeuvre to extend to hard to reach places, will be drilling for samples in the Mars cave
Mechanical Subsystem

Solar Array

Our petal design rotates the shelves to be evenly spaced while taking up minimal volume when stacked
Structural Subsystem

Suspension

Our wishbone arm suspension allows the rover to travel over large rocks without getting stuck, with the wheels free to rotate up and down
Structural Subsystem

Wheel

Our wheel designs is made to grip and push back the fine Martian sand without slipping
Software Subsystem

Controller

Our advanced machine vision and path planning runs locally on the onboard Raspberry Pi
Structural Subsystem

Chassis

Our chassis is made of aluminium extrusions designed to be extremely lightweight and strong
Software Subsystem

Camera

Our Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 allows the rover to understand its surroundings in HD
Electrical Subsystem

Motor Control

Our L298N motor driver powers our four wheels over the rough Martian terrain

Render from Our Subsystems

Our Poster

Check out our poster from the National Students Space Conference 2024

Our Team's Poster

Outreach

We presented our rover design at the National Student Space Conference, held at Bristol on the 3rd of March 2024
Some team members standing in front of poster
Some of our team who were presenting to attendees at the two-day conference attracting hundreds of students alongside large aerospace and exploration companies
Our Instagram page has over 150 followers and provides regular updates on the build and testing process, shows the team members and other interesting space news.
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