IO6: IT Robo Olympics

Start Date

2022-12-01

End Date

2023-05-01

Drive a distance while avoiding obstacles introduced in real time and manual remote control of the educational robot. Students will have the opportunity to compare their achievements and abilities in the form of a race. This is an additional incentive for training and exercises related to programming, algorithms and optimization. Additionally, students will encounter tasks in real world environment and will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their teamwork skills.

The students will apply the acquired knowledge and transfer the training experiments into real world competition. For each discipline, referees will be appointed in order to ensure that the rules are properly implemented and complied with.

Conditions and equipment for conducting the competitions will be created: tracks for line following, labyrinths, obstacle platforms and training ground scene for the remote-control competition.

While the first tree competitions (with self-explanatory names) are of a teamwork type competition, the goal of the robot remote control competition is to have an individual type of competition (which is for fun and not so complicated). In the first tree competitions the teams will be allowed to choose their robot configuration (for example: 3 Ultrasound sensors mounted straight, left and right or a single sweeping Ultrasound sensor mounted on a hobby servo). In individual competition, the students will drive the mobile robot using a joystick/joypad or IR TV type of remote based on their own choice and preference. They will have to drive the mobile robot around the specially designed training ground and fulfill certain tasks, while not bumping into the obstacles. The time to complete will be measured and penalty points for hitting an obstacle will be given.

As a result, we will have a methodology for conducting competitions, sub categories for different disciplines, rules, robot categories, and a scoring system.

Activity 1:

Line following competitions. Work on this activity involves the following tasks:

  • Elaboration of a methodology for conducting the competition – determination of categories, number of participants, number of rounds, number of attempts, team limit, etc.
  • Drafting rules that include robot parameter requirements, robot categorization, strict competition rules and evaluation methods. Determination of track criteria – minimum radius, line thickness, and others;
  • Preparation of tracks in accordance with the criteria laid down in the rules.

Activity 2:

Maze solving competitions. Work on this activity involves the following tasks:

  • Elaboration of a methodology for conducting the competition – determination of categories, number of participants, number of rounds, number of attempts, team limit, etc.;
  • Drafting rules that include robot parameter requirements, robot categorization, strict competition rules and evaluation methods. Determination of labyrinth criteria – Minimum distance between two walls, line thickness and others;
  • Making labyrinths according to the criteria defined in the rules.

Activity 3:

Obstacle avoidance competitions. Work on this activity involves the following tasks:

  • Elaboration of a methodology for conducting the competition – determination of categories, number of participants, number of rounds, number of attempts, team limit, etc.;
  • Drafting rules that include robot parameter requirements, robot categorization, strict competition rules and evaluation methods. Determination of criteria to the terrain and to the shapes and dimensions of the obstacles – equal or uneven terrain, height, width and thickness of the obstacles, minimum distance between the obstacles;
  • Preparing terrains and obstacles according to the defined criteria in the rules.

Activity 4:

Manual remote-control competition. This will accomplish the following tasks:

  • Elaboration of a methodology for conducting the competition – determination of categories, attempts, team limit, etc.;
  • Drafting rules that include robot parameter requirements, robot categorization, strict competition rules and evaluation methods. Determination of criteria to the terrain and to the shapes and dimensions of the obstacles and park places – equal or uneven terrain, height, width and thickness of the obstacles, minimum distance between the obstacles, parking accuracy;
  • Provision of communications network, hardware and demonstration conditions – computers, routers, joysticks and others;
  • Preparing different scenarios for placing robots in specific situations and conditions of the environment in which they are located.
  • Preparing terrains, obstacles and other subjects according to the defined criteria in the rules.
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