Northward autonomous rover challenge!
The goal of this challenge is to design, build, and run a fully automated ground vehicle which, starting from the KSC runway or launchpad, gets as far north as possible in latitude before getting stuck or lost.
Rules:
1. You may not manually control the vehicle in any manner after launch. It should be completely "Fire and Forget."
2. It's ok to manually mess with SAS, trim, staging, action groups, movement, SAS modes, part settings, etc, ONLY BEFORE launch. A vehicle will be consi
Second autonomous polar run complete! 4 hours 53 minutes.
For this second entry, I went for a higher speed- 20 m/s takes way too long. I built a rover capable of traveling at 50 m/s+, but ran into issues with attempting to track north. With my 'slow' rover, jumps were limited. However, at 50+ m/s jumps are frequent. Tracking to the Normal vector points increasingly above the horizon, at 45N the rover wants to point 45 degrees above the horizon. I detailed these issues in a previous po
