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Colorado Robotics Challenge Year 6

Colorado Robotics Challenge Year 6. Saturday April 7th, 2012. Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park. Goals. Develop small autonomous robots capable of traversing harsh terrain as they move towards a central beacon.

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Colorado Robotics Challenge Year 6

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  1. Colorado Robotics ChallengeYear 6 Saturday April 7th, 2012

  2. Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park

  3. Goals • Develop small autonomous robots capable of traversing harsh terrain as they move towards a central beacon. • Providing students with exceptional training in a growing technological discipline. • Develop electronics and mechanical skills specifically • Low entry barriers

  4. The Challenge Provide increasingly challenging courses to challenge all ability levels Provide divisions for friendly recognition of engineering achievement Start with simple “go home” then build to more advanced autonomy including avoidance, mapping, etc.

  5. Basic Rules • Mass: 1.5 kg goal • Hard limit 2.5 kg • Cheap: < $500 for final unit • Don’t hurt the environment • No flying entries • All robots will have a receiver for homing. • The “is it about a cat” rule

  6. Overview of the Event We will have four courses.

  7. Course 1 Course 1 will be fairly smooth and lacking major obstacles. The purpose of this course is to illustrate the robot’s ability to find the homing beacon (433 MHz).

  8. Course 2 Course 2 will be essentially level, but will contain obstacles, natural or artificial. On this course, the robot will demonstrate its ability to detect and avoid obstacles while still homing to the beacon. The obstacles will be sizable.

  9. Course 3 Course 3 will involve uneven terrain. This course will demonstrate the robot’s ability to make decisions regarding a safe route.

  10. CSU’s Robot 2011

  11. Overview of the Event Course 4 will be a nightmare, combination of all the course only at a harder level.

  12. Basic Systems Your robot will have at least these basic systems: 1) Motion 2) Sensory 3) Direction Determination If your robot can send/receive a 433 MHz signal (and decode it!), we will help solve the Direction Determination system. The other two systems are within the capacity of students.

  13. DANGER! DANGER!Sand Trap

  14. Where Should Your Students Start? They should design a platform – the unit responsible for movement and start on the logic!!

  15. Your team needs traction I’m there

  16. Typical Timeline Start teams Dec 2011 Receive COSGC Beacon Unit Jan 1 Receive COSGC Beacon Simulator Jan 1 Design, Drawings and Prototyping Feb 1 Electronics and Microcontroller Feb 28 Base mechanical unit Feb 28 Robotics Challenge Tag-up March 9 Integration March 15 Testing March 30 Testing and Testing April 1 Event Day April 7

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