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Robocup Competition Sun 17th August Science Alive |
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Written by RichardJones
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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The competition was well attended with entries in the Rescue and Dance Sections, Soccer was not in evidence, maybe next year. Some robots performed, some didn't and some self destructed on the floor, but a great deal of fun was had by all. I know from talking to many of the students from 10 years upwards just how much hard work and preparation had been done and how much had been learned on the journey to the competition. Not to be overlooked is the work put in by their teachers and mentors, and the folks at Science Alive. If you are at a school not already entering consider coming along so that you can enter next year. The competition is sponsored by Toshiba and MTA. More info: http://www.robocupjunior.org.nz/
Robocup robots are always welcome at our Chch Robotics meetings and we'll do our best to provide courses for them to run on. And naturally we'll do our best to provide hints and tips on how to improve, and maybe you will have advice for us too.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 )
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Written by RichardJones
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
Table Top Challenge The Home Brew Robotics Club, has a tabletop challenge, and our founding member Andrew unashamedly adapted their idea to local conditions. The goal is to build a tabletop robot, that can drive around a Science Alive table without falling off the table, and locate a 2x2 inch box. Once it has found the box, it needs to push it down to one end of the table and into a shoebox. The eventual goal of this challenge is to get working robots, in the club, that could be used for 1 on 1 tabletop soccer. The challenge has 3 phases: -
Stay on the table without falling off while turned on and moving. -
Locate the box on the table and push it off without falling off yourself. -
Locate the box, and push it into a shoe box (goal) at one end.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 August 2008 )
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Written by Hanno
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
Micromouse Challenge at ChchRobotics The truth is that we don't have any functioning micromouse robots at the moment. Nevertheless a number of us in Christchurch are keen, and once we have one functioning mouse more will surely breed. We have a portion of maze which is handy for testing designs. I'll bring this along to each session, and when the need arises we'll see about procuring enough maze to run a New Zealand competition. (Any suggestions about how to buy, borrow or make a maze would be welcome). With no robots to compete against each other here are the challenges that we can run for individual mice learning their way towards maze solving. 1. Fastest lap time around an arbitrary sized maze rectangle. 2. Wall following to the centre of a simply connected maze. 3. Random maze exploration. 4. Full Maze solving. Details of the micromouse competition rules, design ideas and alogorithms are widely available on the Internet. See our Links and Pictures sections. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 November 2007 )
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