COMPETITIONS

What's wrong with a little friendly competition? Every year, NU Robotics Club puts together many teams to enter competitions against other schools and classmates. We aim to perform at high-level and live up to our solid reputation wherever we compete. Here are our three competition teams.

COMPAUTON

CompAuton is focused on autonomous robotics. Originally centered around preparing for UIUC's Midwestern Robotics Design Competition, our CompAuton team has since branched out to other competitions, namely the National Robotics Challenge (NRC) Micromouse Contest. Micromouse involves building a small, autonomous robot capable of exploring and mapping a maze in order to find and navigate through the fastest possible path without any external control. It is important to have a robot that can move quickly, but the biggest challenges are finding a way to map the course accurately and having a pathfinding algorithm which can find the best path. If you participated in FIRST or VEX Robotics competitions in high school, then you’ll feel right at home working on this team.

COMBAT ROBOTICS

In combat robotics, fufill your dream of creating robots that fight other robots! Our combat robotics team competes at the National Havoc Robotics League (NHRL) in Norwalk, CT multiple times each year, and competes in the Robobrawl competition at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana! We compete in the 3 and 30 pound divisions, and have competed in the NHRL finals for 2 years in a row. Members learn to use CAD, machine metal, utilize rapid prototyping technologies, construct robust electronic systems, and more. Combat robotics is always looking for new members of any experience level, so come join us!

UNDERWATER ROV

UROV, or underwater remote operated vehicles, is a group dedicated to designing an ROV to compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV Competition. We compete as a company in an effort to sell our design to the judges, or customers. Competition involves a product demonstration, in which our ROV completes a myriad of tasks such as retrieving sediment samples and clearing dead coral; a technical report, in which we detail and rationalize the design decisions incorporated in the ROV; and a presentation with the judges. We are always looking for more people to join us.

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