Project Timeline
Team Creation
The recommanded way to complete this project is to find 2-3 friends, from whom each one will be in charge of a separare field of engineering. This will serve in many ways:
Splits up the amount of work
Imposes the need for clear interfaces
Teaches teamwork and cooperation
Builds up a team spirit that will keep you going in tough times
Time Investment
The average time comittement for a team of 4 students, with absolutely no prior experience and each dedicated to one field of engineering is between 4-6 hours a week for two class semesters (14 weeks each). So an average of 5h per week during 30 weeks netting around 150h of work.
A skilled engineer speed-running a bare-bones rover which no extra attachements should be able to complete each field of engineering in about half of that time.
A passionnate person who wants to dig deep in one or many aspects of the project can easily spend multiple hundredth of hours iterating and improving their rover and while doing so, get very competent in the field at hand.
Financial Cost
Successful Projects
Here are all previously completed rovers and their teams: