Rovers for simulated Mars terrain. ROVs for underwater missions. UAVs for autonomous flight. I serve as president of the team — this is where the machines live.
60+
MEMBERS
4
DIVISIONS
3
ACTIVE PROJECTS
2010
FOUNDED
The Machines
PLANETARY EXPLORATION ROVER
/ROVER
Six-wheeled rover with a 5-DOF manipulator arm, built for international rover challenge circuits: autonomous traversal, equipment servicing, and science operations over unstructured terrain.
UNDERWATER REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE
/ROV
Underwater ROV with a vectored thruster layout and sealed electronics tube, designed for inspection and manipulation tasks in submarine robotics competitions.
AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLE
/UAV
Quadrotor platform with carbon-fiber arms for autonomous flight research: waypoint missions, computer-vision-guided landing, and payload delivery experiments.
Command Log
PRESIDENT
Leading ROBOCOL means running an engineering org inside a university: budgets, sponsors, recruiting, and shipping three vehicle programs a year with a volunteer team.
Elected president of ROBOCOL
Took over leadership of Universidad de los Andes' robotics team — coordinating mechanical, electronic, software and administrative divisions.
Competition season
Placeholder — add the competitions the team attended under your term, results, and what broke at 2 a.m. the night before.
Growing the team
Placeholder — recruitment, workshops, sponsorships, outreach. The parts of leading a team that never show up in the photos.
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