[India] RoboCup @Home Education Challenge India 2020

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Workshop & Competition on Domestic Service Robotics

Delhi-NCR, India 2020

[Dates] 13th - 15th January 2020

[Venue] Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram

[Address] Pahari Road, Block E, DLF Phase 1, Sector 26, Gurugram, Haryana, India - 122011

[Instructors] Prof. Jeffrey Tan and Heramb Reddy Modugula

RoboCup@Home Education is an educational initiative that promotes educational efforts to boost RoboCup@Home participation and service robot development. We have started @Home Education activities since 2015, organized various competitions in Japan Open 2015, 2016, 2017, and RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017, which generated more than 10 new teams with more than 50 participants in @Home participation. As an educational effort, since 2016 we have also conducted more than 8 workshops in domestic Japan and overseas. The workshop audiences were ranging from 20~70 participants, not limited to technical university students, but also inexperienced high school students and the general public.

On December 2017, in collaboration with MathWorks, we had organized the Education Challenge at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 Bangkok, in a combined workshop and competition event. It was a great success in transforming totally inexperienced participants to be able to build a robot and ace the competition. We had obtained a bigger success in RoboCup 2018 Montreal, where a total of 11 teams over 40 participants from 9 different countries had taken part in the event. With this inspiring motivation, we have organized this event in the RoboCup 2019 Sydney for the participation from the worldwide RoboCup community.

Group Picture - RoboCup @Home Education Challenge India 2020

More photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rg1gAtbPWffZ3TB9A

<Awards>

Award

Best Improvement - Functionality (1st Pace)

Best Improvement - Functionality (2nd Pace)

Best Improvement - ROS (3rd Pace)

Best Improvement - MATLAB (4th Pace)

Team Name

Team Blaze

Robosquads

BGIS Robotics

Warriors

Affiliation

Genesis Global School

Shiv Nadar School, Noida

Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and International School

Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad

<Participants>

Team Name

Warriors

BGIS Robotics

Smart Head Robotix

Team Blaze

D_Coders 4.0

Annihilators

Robosquads

Affiliation

Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram

Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and International School

Smart Head Robotix

Genesis Global School

iSmriti / IIT Kanpur

Shiv Nadar School, Noida

Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad


City

Gurugram (Delhi-NCR)

Brindavan

Noida (Delhi-NCR)

Noida (Delhi-NCR)

Kanpur

Noida (Delhi-NCR)

Faridabad (Delhi-NCR)

<Final Schedule>

Workshop & Competition (January 13 (Mon) ~ 15 (Wed), 2020)

13 Jan (Monday)

- 09:00~12:00 Robot Setup

- 13:00~15:00 Introduction

- 15:00~17:00 Workshop 1 Navigation

- 17:00~18:00 Team Development

14 Jan (Tuesday)

- 09:00~12:00 Team Development

- 13:00~15:00 Competition Task 1 Carry My Luggage

- 15:00~17:00 Workshop 2 Speech

- 17:00~18:00 Team Development

15 Jan (Wednesday)

- 09:00~12:00 Workshop 3 Vision

- 13:00~15:00 Team Development

- 15:00~17:00 Competition Task 2 Find My Mates

- 17:00~18:00 Award Ceremony

<Workshop>

Workshop Contents

We will conduct a hands-on workshop to guide the participants to build the robot for the competition. Prior experience in robot building is not required. However, some basic programming skill is needed. You can refer to our online courseware to get some ideas on the contents of the workshop, RoboCup@Home Education Open Courseware for Service Robotics.

Workshop in progress at the event

Robot Hardware

The teams are free to develop own robot (based on the Turtlebot 2 platform) for participation in the event.

Required components for the robot are:

  • Robot (TurtleBot2)

  • Sensor (Kinect/Xtion/Astra)

  • Laptop

Recommended components that teams can use to expand their robot are:

      • Emergency stop button

      • Speakers

      • Microphone

Robot Platform for the Workshop

Robot Platform for the Workshop

PC and Software

The participating teams are required to prepare own computing device (laptop) for the robot. Please prepare AT LEAST ONE laptop per team prior to the competition.

- Minimum requirements: 2 USB ports (or with USB hub), built-in microphone and speaker (better with external)

- PC environment: Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

- Download, install and activate MATLAB R2019b (complimentary software license by MathWorks)

*** 1. Check System Requirements for MATLAB R2019b. https://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq.html

*** 2. Go to the RoboCup support page and request a complimentary software license. This should be started soon so things are ready. The steps to install and activate MATLAB will be emailed to you once the license is approved, and each team member should use the same information. https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/robocup.html

Competition in progress at the event

<Competition>

The official RoboCup@Home rulebook of 2019 (previous year) is based and 2 tests are selected as follows:

  1. Carry My Luggage

  2. Find My Mates

Detailed rules: [Australia] Rules 2019 @ RoboCup 2019

<Registration>

Competition Categories

    • Open category (AT LEAST ONE member above 19 years old)

    • Junior category (ALL members under 19 years old)

Event Application

Fill in and submit the online entry form linked below (one per team). If you have any difficulty to submit online, please contact athomeedu.loc.india@gmail.com.

Call for Participation: http://app.surveygamez.com/sg/8dd9df80xf [Closed]

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