Lego NXT robot competition 2009 Helsinki Finland

ECT Forum robot skill contest 2009 Helsinki Finland

Ten Lego Mindstorms NXT robots attended to this ECT Forum skill contest at ELKOM 09 at Helsinki Fair Centre. Seven of them were really bad and the third in this video collected in the semifinals only one can and made to the final with that achievement. In the final it made the same manouver: One can in correct place and then back to the start square. Total amount of price money was 10,000 euros and all the ten groups got to keep the NXT sets.

The first finalist (moving on the squares) won with time 4.33 and the second (moving between squares) came second with about 5 minutes time.


From official site (www.eis.fi/ect/robokisa.php):

__Playing field__
Playing field is 2m by 2m black and white chess grid, which square size is 20cm by 20cm. Bottom right corner is starting and ending square. Goal zone is formed by 9 squares (60cm x 60cm) in the top left corner.

__Challenge and evaluation criterions__
Task is to move randomly placed nine cans to the squares in the goal zone so that a can found in a white square is moved to a white goal square and a can from a black square is moved to a black goal square. During this challenge robots are not allowed to move outside the grid. The robot is activated in the start square and the robot must come back to the same square after it has moved all the cans to show it is finished it's job. Cans are ordinary 33 cl aluminium cans (Karjala lager beer have been in them previously) which are coated to be white and black. Maximum time to perform this task is 6 minutes. Winner is the robot that have moved the most cans to the right squares in the least amount of time. In the end the judges (2 professors from technic universities and the president of Helsinki Fair Centre) decides the winner if there are problems in the rules.

__Specification of the robot__
Contender teams use robots build and programmed from Lego Mindstorms NXT TriBot building set. Robots must function totally autonomous.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• ECT
• Forum
• Robottien
• taitokilpailu
• 2009
• eis
• messukeskus
• labview
• national
• instruments
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[adam4397]

Very cool

[dardull]

BAD ASS