European Rover Challenge
An international field competition testing rover autonomy, manipulation, and science payload performance against university teams from across the world.
COMPETITORMAR ATHANASIUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING · KOTHAMANGALAM
Team Srishti is MACE's student robotics team — a multidisciplinary crew of engineers designing, fabricating, and operating planetary rovers for international competition, and running our own: the Asian Rover Challenge.
Team Srishti is the official robotics team of Mar Athanasius College of Engineering. We're a student-run, multidisciplinary crew that designs, fabricates, and pilots planetary rover prototypes — treating every build as a rehearsal for real off-world operations.
Our work spans mechanical design, embedded electronics, autonomous navigation, and mission science, all wrapped inside the same project-management discipline that real space programs run on. We compete internationally, and in 2026 we took that same standard and used it to build a competition of our own.
An international field competition testing rover autonomy, manipulation, and science payload performance against university teams from across the world.
COMPETITORAsia-Pacific's flagship space robotics competition — formerly the Indian Rover Challenge — where teams are evaluated on mission performance and engineering design across a full week of on-site tasks.
COMPETITOROur own competition. Team Srishti and RISA host the Asian Rover Challenge at MACE — a full-scale rover competition built on everything we've learned from competing on the international stage.
Visit asrc.space ORGANIZEREach rover generation carries forward what the last one taught us — placeholder specs shown below; swap in real generation names, dates and photos as they're finalized.
Baseline four-wheel chassis and manual drive control — the proof that a student-built rover could complete a full mission course.
Added a robotic arm and onboard science payload for sample handling and in-situ analysis tasks.
Introduced autonomous navigation and obstacle negotiation, moving beyond manual teleoperation for the first time.
Our current-generation platform — refined drivetrain, custom power distribution, and a rebuilt control stack for this competition season.
Chassis, suspension, drivetrain and the robotic arm — everything that has to survive being driven into a rock.
Power distribution, custom PCBs, sensor integration and the wiring that keeps every subsystem talking to each other.
Localization, path planning and obstacle negotiation for unstructured, Mars-simulated terrain.
Payload design and sample analysis — detection, collection, and interpretation of simulated Martian samples.
The control stack that turns a joystick input — or an autonomy command — into coordinated motor movement.
Project management, sponsorship, documentation, and getting the next generation of engineers excited about robotics.
Leadership roster and member photos to be added here — same grid pattern as the subteam cards above.
Advanced to the on-site finals of the International Rover Challenge after System Design and Development Review.
Hosted the inaugural qualification round of the Asian Rover Challenge at MACE, alongside RISA.
Represented MACE at ERC, fielding a full rover across autonomy and science mission tasks.
Reach out about recruitment, sponsorship, or the Asian Rover Challenge.