Robotics Competition for High School

High school robotics competition is originally organized by FISRT (For Inspirations and Recognition of Science and Technology). The tournament is held to compete among the international high school students from all over the world such as Australia, Canada, Turkey, Netherlands, Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico. FIRST was invented by a businessman Dean Kamen and a physicist Woodie Flower which aimed to challenge the participants of the competition to responsible for significant technological advances. In 1992 the first FRC (FISRT Robotics Competition) was held with only one event in a small-scale competition at a high school gymnasium in New Hemisphere. In 1992 to 2004, the games were participated by a couple teams for each coalition, a group of team that is associated for one match. Today, the games are played with three teams for each group.

The high school robotics competition rules do not change every year but the game for the most part. The competition is participated by three teams in one group. It involves mentors team such as professional employee, teachers, or college students and 25 high school students collaborating to design and assemble a robot in six weeks. The robotics competition is structured of qualification matches followed by elimination matches. The following are some categories of the match structures; district events, regional events, and championship. And the games played in the latest FCR in 2012 are rebound rumble.

Robotics Competition: VEX Robotics Competition

VEX robotics competition is a robotics competition exploiting the VEX robotics platform centered on VEX Protobot kit. The kit consists of two bumper sensors and two limited switches, four electric motors and a servo, wheels (four small, four medium, and four large tires), gears, and structural parts. The VEX robotics, Inc. employs the non-profit Robotics Education and Competition Foundation to organize and arrange the worldwide VEX robotics competition. The competitors are challenged to assemble and program a robot to finish a task which is revealed every year. The team plays on a square field with 12’x12’ on size. Two groups consists of one ‘red’ and one ‘blue’, each of them composed of two teams. The teams compete on twenty second period match with two minutes additional driver-controlled play. The object of the game is reaching higher point than your opponent by collecting points according to the game elements (Elevation, Clean Sweep, and Round Up) with a bonus point in the end of Autonomous Period. In the Gateway position, however, there is no autonomous bonus.

The VEX robotics competition in 2011-2012 season is playing Gateway game. The students who are guided by their teachers and mentors are demanded to assemble a modern robot and collaborate to gain the highest point in the robotics competition. In this opportunity, students not only can build an innovative robot by themselves but also will learn many academics and life skills.

Robotics Competitions in San Diego

FIRST Robotics Competition is a competition collaborating between professional adult teams and young students to design such innovative and modern robot in the competitive way. Annually, the tournament achieves more than 43000 students forming 1500 teams convened in across the United States and all over the world. The annual sixth regional robotics competition was conducted in San Diego at the Valley View Casino Center for 3 days (March 2nd – 4th 2012).

There are many scholarships are provided by some colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals for the participants. The competition proves the students that technological fields bring about many prospects for them and that the basic concept of science, math, engineering, and invention are thrilling and attractive. The winner teams of the Robotics Competition San Diego are from USA (Bellarmine College Preparatory, Cimarron-Memorial High School, and Chulla Vista California). The teams showed their best skills and academics to design innovative robot in the robotics competition.

Indonesian team managed to win many divisions of the robot contest:

• Winner Wheeled Division (UGM)
• Runner Up Wheeled Division (UGM)
• Winner Legged Division (ITB)
• Runner Up Legged Division (ITB)
• Winner Advanced RoboWaiter Division (Unikom)
• Winner Standard RoboWaiter Division (Unikom)
• Runner Up Standard RoboWaiter Division (Unikom)

Congratulation…

Download Vex Robotics Tutorial document
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Held from 24 to 27 February 2011, the event which took place in Osaka, Japan has become the first game marathon in the world, where the participants are the robots runners. To prove who is the most superior, robots that become participants have to cover the tracks run run as far as 42.2 km.

Fun, for those who want to follow the game, available UStream video streaming service which broadcast the competition run this robot directly.

Organized by Vstone, the creator of the robot Robovie-PC, the game aims to test the ability of the robot in navigating the tracks that have been set up to run to the finish line.

Robovie-PC of course participating in this competition. Robots that have supported the accuracy of navigation with 1.3 megapixel camera and 1.6 GHz processor, Robovie-PC predicted as a tough competitor who challenged the other robots.

And so in fact, Robovie-PC was a winner in this match. Please see footage of this robot marathon match  in the video below:

Theme for ABU Robocon 2011 Bangkok is “Loy Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship”.
The theme is adapted from the Loy Krathong ceremony which is a traditional Thai ceremony to honor the Goddess of the river. The vibrant activity is held in Thailand on the full moon night in November every year. A “krathong” is a small boat usually made of cut banana stems and leaves. Loy Krathong revelers put flowers, candles and joss sticks on their tiny boats before releasing them into a river and leaving them to float downstream.

Download ABU Robocon 2011 Bangkok Theme and Rules:
Animation Video: LINK
Theme and Rules: LINK

OmniZero.9 is the newest OmniZero robot created by Takeshi Maeda. The ninth iteration is a humanoid looking bot with wheeled shoulders and knees that allows it to motor along the ground, little similar to transformers, isn’t..?. Its head also flips back to create a seat just big enough for its creator, who jumps on for a short ride around the demonstration stage. The bot competed at ROBO-ONE in a few different categories.

Here the action of another OmniZero robot, known as OmniZero.2:

Robot Monkey Championship 2009 will be held on 26 September at 4-10pm EST in Brooklyn. Don’t miss it…

This Saturday, Brooklyn takes on Manhattan in the Robot Monkey Wars Chimpionship II at t.b.d. If you don’t know what the Robot Monkey Wars are — well obviously you haven’t lived — but don’t just dismiss it as a bunch of drunks playing with remote control toys. OK, well, yes, that’s exactly what it is essentially, but it is also about art and artists and supporting both. And, we can’t stress this enough, it’s about robot monkeys fighting.

Dan Walker, whose multimedia work has been compared to that of Alexander Calder, founded the Robot Monkey Wars as a commentary about the abundance of advertising in sports. Well, it also turns out that advertising is a good way to make money, and in this case the proceeds are benefiting MyPAC (My Private Art Club) an international organization and collaboration that allows “local” artists to bring their work to other neighborhoods around the world through group shows and events. Also, it is way cool watching robot monkeys fight.

This time t.b.d. in Greenpoint, the industrial space née ultra lux beer lounge, is acting as stadium-slash-art gallery and Absolut and Jameson are on board with drink specials from 6-8 to encourage maximum drunken button-mashing carnage. The robot monkeys, as is all of Walker’s art, are fashioned out of found objects such as old toys. Sure, it seems a little silly, but just think, is it any sillier than what people usually do at bars?

ref: robotmonkey.com; nbcnewyork.com

Here some information about Asia Pasific robot competition ABU Robocon 2010 Cairo-Egypt:

• ABU Robocon 2010 theme: Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids
• ABU Robocon 2010 animation video preview: Download here
• ABU Robocon 2010 game fields/figures: Download here
• ABU Robocon 2010 Rules: Download here

ABU Robocon 2010 official website: www.roboconegypt2010.com

Or download the video in MP4 format HERE.
Be ready for National Robot Contests, fight to be the winner and then go to Cairo, Egypt for next battle..

(Download Abu Robocon 2009 Final Battle)

China won the final battle by finished the mission less than 20 seconds. Great jon guys, very-very fast mission accomplishment…

And here the result of Abu Robocon 2009 in Tokyo.

- 1st position (winner) : China robot team (Harbin Institute of Technology)
- 2nd position (runner up) : Hongkong robot team (University of Hong Kong).
- 3rd position : Vietnam robot team (HCMC University of Technical Education) and Japan robot team (Toyohashi University of Technology)

Other:
Idea: Japan robot team from Toyohashi University of Technology
Technology: Egypt robot team
Design: Hong Kong robot team

Abu Robocon 2010 will be held at Egypt