Challenge

First Competition in Zone 1:

The first competition will test the participants' ability to solve a benchmark robotics problem:

In the Zone 1, a walled maze with a thick line running through the center is provided. Teams are tasked with solving the maze autonomously using any combination of electronics and programming; for example, teams can use ultrasonic sensor or the line tracking sensor to solve the maze. Two team’s robots will enter the maze at the same time at the Entrance points in the figure above, navigate through the maze, and then come to a stop at the pit stop marked by thick black lines (not shown). During the pit stop, they will have two minutes to switch from the autonomous mode to the remote-controlled mode and also make any minor fixes to their bot.

Each robot’s time to complete the maze will be recorded. After all robots have completed the challenge, teams will be placed in the rank order from best time to worst time. Collisions with walls will lower the ranking. Each three collisions will lower the rank by one place.

Second and Third Competitions in Zone 2:

The second competition zone puts two robots in direct competition to control their robots over Bluetooth to collect Ping Pong balls using any method, such as pick, sweep, scoop, etc., and place them in their own goals. A robot entering the maze on the left is assigned the goal on the left and the one entering on the right is assigned the goal on the right side. The team that collects most balls in three minutes of time wins this competition. An audio signal, such as buzzer will indicate the time to complete this task. Deliberate contact with the opposing robot will disqualify or lower the rank depending on the seriousness of the damage caused.

Once a team completes above task, they will open a parking spot by hitting a button mounted on the wall on their side. Robots are tasked with parking their bot in their zone as fast as possible. This will also be timed. All teams will have at most one minute to complete this task. Preventing opposing team to enter the parking deliberately will disqualify the team.

Scoring

At the end of each competition, teams will be rank ordered and their ranks will be added together to determine the winner.

Example:

In the zone 1 competition, Team A takes the least amount of time to complete the maze; thus they are placed 1st, Team B has next best time, thus they are ranked 2nd. Rest of the teams are placed below both Teams A and B.

In the zone 2 ball collection competition, Team B collects five balls while the Team A collects three ve balls in the allotted three minutes. Other teams collect less balls than either of the teams A or B. Thus, Team B is ranked 1 and A is ranked 2.

In the zone 3, Team B parks their robot in the least amount of time, so they are ranked 1, while Team A is the third fastest, so they are ranked 3.

At the end of the challenge, this is the rank order:

Team A: 1, 2, 3; total = 6

Team B: 2, 1, 1; total = 4

Thus, Team B with the lowest score is the winner. In case of a tie, we will do a final match between the teams.

Judges and referees decision would be final in determining the rank order. Any other events or conditions not covered by the above rules will also be under the discretion of the organizers.