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Latest News May 17 3:14AM EST 

Congratulations to Paulo Uribe for his winning entry NoSoup4U!1, which scored 109.2822. Paulo will be receiving a complete box set of the raw images sent back by the Pathfinder mission (3 CD-ROM set) plus assorted MATLAB goodies. Other winners included Martin Leach, Peter Acklam, and Per Rutqvist.

The M-file that was used to produce the contest test suite can be downloaded here: surveyortestsuite.m. This form of this function is identical to the "planet.m" file that was distributed at start of the contest.

The Contest Analysis is now online.

Mars Surveyor Mission

[Mars Pathfinder rover]

Enter the MATLAB Programming Contest and compete for daily prizes. The contest is your chance to strut your algorithmic ingenuity and display your MATLAB coding craftmanship.

The contest is also an experiment in collaborative development. All entries in the contest are publicly viewable so you also have the opportunity to learn from the entries of others. You can then optimize and resubmit those entries to build on the work of others.

The Challenge

You work for NASA, on the project team that's designing the successor to the Mars Pathfinder mission: the Mars Surveyor Mission. Your team will be landing a set of robotic surface rovers to survey the planet's surface. Your job is to direct these rovers.

Your team has already selected a region of the surface to survey. You will have a map of this region, that marks areas that you've identified as impassable by the rovers and marks spots that have been identified as safe for landing.

Your job is to design an algorithm which, given a map of the region to be surveyed, will return a set of instructions to direct the rovers to traverse as much of the region of interest as possible.

How to play

  1. See the Contest Rules for a complete problem statement, detailed rules, and sample entries.
  2. Take a look at the current entries and rankings

Deadline

The contest will close on Friday, June 18, at 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 GMT).

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded at roughly daily intervals throughout the period of the contest to the final author of the current highest ranking entry.

The author of the final winning entry in the contest will:

Feedback and Questions

Check our FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions about the contest.

Please send any comments or questions to the MathWorks at contest@mathworks.com

If you would like to discuss the problem or your solutions with fellow MATLAB users, we encourage you to post your comments on the Usenet discussion group: comp.soft-sys.matlab

Past Contests

If you'd like to see how past contests have progressed, take a look at the CD Packing contest which was run in December 1998. Take a look at our analysis of the winning entry and of the evolution of the entries as the contest progressed.

Disclaimer

This contest is not supported or endorsed by NASA or JPL in any way. We do not claim that this contest represents a real problem faced by the engineers at NASA. For more information on the Mars Surveyor mission see the Mars Mission Page at NASA.

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