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Robosumo Contest February 2009
On the February 2009 meeting, we had a Robosumo contest. You can read up on the rules here.
Mini Sumo February 2010
We announced a minisumo competition for our February 2010 meeting, and I think people must have mistakenly understood it to be an MINI Minisumo competition, because only 2 bots showed up, and one of them wasn't even a regular RSSC member. A 10 year old girl showed up with her dad and a LEGO MIndstorm robot, and ... she beat the pants of our club representative.
Sumobot February 2008
10 robots entered the Sumo robot contest. After many rounds of high excitement, the victors were crowned:
Grid Navigation Contest June 2003
In the RSSC archives, I found the following pictures from a Grid Navigation contest held in June 2003. I do not have much information about this event. If you remember anything mentionworthy, please let us know and we will add it to this web page.
Grid Navigation
Photos from previous competitions: http://www.rssc.org/grid-navigation-june-2003
These are the contest rules for the Grid Navigation Contest to be held at RSSC meetings.
PURPOSE:
Promote the development of robust line following algorithms and user interfaces.
Robot Description:
Get-Me-A-Beer Challenge
Ever since the club was founded way back in the dark ages of robotics (i.e. 1989), many members have pondered about a robot that can fetch a beer from the fridge while watching your favorite game, a cough potato's liquid dream. So, how hard can it be? Many people have tried, many have failed.
Some club members have created a contest and written some rules for it. Here are the original contest rules.
Pick-Up-The-Can
Pick-Up-The-Can Contest Rules
(Also known as the “Robot, get me a Beer!” contest.)
Contest rules by Thomas Messerschmidt
Contest divisions: 1. R/C, 2. Autonomous-Dead Reckoning, 3. Autonomous-Sensors.
For all three contest divisions:
1. Can will be provided and it is a standard 12 oz empty aluminum soda can. It is painted a solid RED. No other modifications to can are allowed. Nothing may be attached or added to can. (No magnets, labels, etc.)
line maze solving
Line Maze Solving Contest
This is an intermediate level contest that can be done by basic line-following robots (typical Pololu 3pi type robots). If your robot can follow a line, then you have the hardware necessary for this contest. From then on, it is just software. In the links below, you will find more on how to implement this.
line following contest
Line Following contest
The following rules are based on the line following rules from the Robogames website:
The objective of this contest is to complete the course in the shortest period of time while accurately tracking the course line from start to finish.