The Red Rover prototype was taken back to Robot City for a second round of testing this past Saturday. The objectives remained to test the integrated components on the rover, including the working solar panels and new power systems. With a great sunny day and a relatively smooth software and hardware run, the rover successfully completed its 500m trek in six hours.

The drivers were able to control and navigate the rover with its stereo image output from a graphical user interface. In fact, the drivers were not allowed to directly look at the rover itself.

Solar power was effectively harnessed to charge the batteries powering the rover.

The rover had no problem moving forwards when all the snow turned into mud. It was only occasionally paused to transfer all the images taken by its stereo cameras to different computers. These images will be processed later by a visual odometry algorithm to test position estimation.