12/03/06

Robocon is an international robotics contest started in 2002 conducted by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. The game rules for 2004 competition can be found at  http://www.kbs.co.kr/aburobocon2004/ABU2004_outline.html

Our team won the national competition defeating about 25 teams from 11 engineering colleges around the country including I.I.T- Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur and Chennai. The team consisted of about 12 people. 3 students worked on the Software programming of the robots and 9 worked on designing and developing electronics and mechanical structure.  I lead the Software team. We built 1 manual robot and 4 autonomous robots for the competition. All the robots for this competition were built from scratch.

The manual robot had the capacity to move at about 5ft/sec and collect 2 Ojak Bridge parts (Terms are explained in rules website given above).  weighing about 12 pounds. The autonomous robots were designed to start automatically, traverse along the white lines, reach the location in which the square gifts were kept, collect them and bring them back to the gift collector bin. The  video and pictures below show the robots developed by our team for this competition. We won the National Championship and represented India in the International competition in Seoul, South Korea. We also won the award for the Best aesthetically built robots.

This video show the functioning of our autonomous robot. This robot could collect up to 6 gift boxes (2 stacks of 3 gift boxes each) in 180 seconds: Click Here  Autonomous Robot 1.

This video shows the redesigned autonomous robot. This robot could collect up to 9 gift boxes in less than 180 seconds. Click Here: Autonomous Robot 2.

The picture below shows the complete fleet of robots we designed and developed for Robocon-2004. It has one manual robot and 4 autonomous robots.

The pictures below show the two different types of autonomous robots we developed.

The picture below shows our manual robot.

The picture below shows our Autonomous Golden-Gift collector.