Team Interplanetar is a multidisciplinary undergraduate student robotics team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. This team was founded in 2011 and has been participating in Mars Rover competitions around the world since 2013.

From NASA Lunabotics Competition – 2013 to European Rover Challenge (ERC) – 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024; University Rover Challenge (URC)- 2016, 2021, 2022 and 2023; Indian Rover Design Challenge (IRDC) – 2020, 2023, 2024 and IPAS-2021 and Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) 2023 and 2024 – it’s been over a decade since Team Interplanetar has been actively participating in worldwide space- robotic competitions. The first achievement for Team Interplanetar was securing 5th position in the Phobos Group of URC – 2016.

Current team members have the experience of achieving the team 13th position in ERC-2023 Remote, 8th in ERC-2022 Onsite and 4th in ERC-2022 Remote, 16th in ERC-2019 Onsite, 13th in ERC-2020 Remote, 11th in ERC-2021 Remote, 11th in Indian Rover Design Challenge (IRDC) 2020. Our team has also achieved Innovation award for designing a revolutionary gas compression system for a Mars aerial vehicle in International Planetary Aerial System (IPAS) Challenge 2021. Despite the interruptions in participation due to major academic schedule mismatch and national crisis in the past years, the enthusiasm and passion towards participating in the challenges has remained intact. To continue the legacy, we are now proposing our team take part in ERC – 2026 with our rover, Prochesta V5.0. As ours is an interdisciplinary team with members from different engineering backgrounds, such as electrical, mechanical, material and computer science, our members possess knowledge and experience in a multitude of technical fields related to the competition.

We are thankful to our sponsors: SOLIDWORKS and MATLAB for supporting our development by providing us with crucial software for our design, development, and analysis.