NATIONAL

ROBOSPRINT 2015
A National Robotics Educational Campaign

Host:
PAF KIET Karachi
Headquarters:
CASE, Islamabad

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NATIONAL ROBOSPRINT
1 RoboSprint
The name ROBOSPRINT is attributed to an annual robotics competition held by Center for
Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) to promote passion for the field of robotics in its
undergraduate students. ROBOSPRINT was initiated at a local level by CASE Robotics Group
(CRG) - the undergraduate robotics research group of CASE, in 2009.
In 2010, Air University joined hands and their students participated along with the students
of CASE making it a bigger and a better experience.

2 A brief history of CASE Robotics Group (CRG)

CRG was initiated in fall of 2008 considering the need of aligning our undergraduate
Electrical Engineering program with the demands of the todays fast moving technological
and multidisciplinary era. Since then, CRG has actively participated in all the major national
events of robotics.

CRG participated in the largest robotics event of Pakistan known as National Engineering
Robotics Competition (NERC) for the first time in 2009. NERC is a joint venture of STEM
Careers and NUST. Among 105 teams from 35 institutes of Pakistan, teams from CASE not
only won the first position but also bagged the second runners-up and the best engineering
design awards. It was indeed a great achievement for CASE and CRG as winning while
participating for the first time against much experienced teams was tremendously
motivating for all of us.

CRG charged up with the first big success carried on its plans of becoming a center for
excellence. Next year, CRG started to work on a unique robotic model which was based on
Shrimp Rover design. The project was funded by National Development Cell (NDC). The
robot known as Ayaan Rover was equipped with fully autonomous navigation and obstacle
avoidance properties. Moreover, it could overcome a vertical step of 56cm which is highest
in the world. The project won first position in NASCON 2010 held at NU-FAST and second
position in EMCOT 2010 held at COMSATS Abbotabad. During the same year, CRG was also
able to defend its NERC title by claiming first position and the best engineering design
award amongst 155 teams from 35 institutes. For the first time an omni-directional robot
was introduced in this competition. It was the first line tracking Mecanum wheels based
robot of Pakistan and claimed a job completion time of 24.8 seconds which is a record. NERC
2011 was a remarkable success in the history of CRG when 6 teams out 160 were able to
complete the task and 5 of them were from CASE as 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th.

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CRGs activities were not limited to national events in 2010. It expanded its operations to the
worlds most coveted line tracking competition ABU ROBOCON. ABU ROBOCON is the only
line tracking competition in the world in which more than 20 Asia Pacific countries compete
to win the ultimate crown. Each country can only be represented by only one team which is
selected from a nation-wide qualification round. CASE competed against the likes of EME
College (NUST), PNEC (NUST) and GIKI, etc. and won the first position in the national
qualifying of ABU ROBOCON. Holding the Pakistani flag high in Cairo, team from CASE won
their match from a much experienced Indian team. It was a source of great honor for us that
we did so well in spite of being so new at the competition.

CRG is persistent in 2011 as well. The ABU ROBOCON 2011 project was the most successful
chapter in history of CASE. This year again, we won the national qualifying by a greater
margin and the sophistication of design and implementation has seen its new peak. The
project also has the honor of winning the Best Project Award in All Categories in ICT
COMPPEC 2011 held at EME College, NUST. Defending the title this year CASE team turned
Team Pakistan after competing with seven reputed universities all over Pakistan including
EME collage NUST, PNEC NUST, Sir Syed university of Engineering and Technology and NED
University. This project also secured second position in ICT COMPPEC an all Pakistan
projects exhibition in the category of electromechanical systems.

In 2013 once again we won the national qualifying by competing against different
universities like EME College (NUST) and UET Taxila. Our team went to Vietnam to represent
Pakistan and worked for the progressive promotion of the country in terms of technology.
CASE also defended the title of Champions in RoboSprint 2013 held at University of Central
Punjab Lahore where teams from CASE secures 1st,3rd ,4th and Best Idea Award in the
competition. RoboSprint 2014 was held at CASE and once again the title was defended by
CASE in the general and special category.

3 The Future of RoboSprint

Though CRG has enjoyed great success in the recent past by the grace of Almighty Allah yet
it has not blinded us of the fact that our competitors (from all over Pakistan) have lacked
basic skills in this particular field. ROBOSPRINT is not just a nationwide competition but a
comprehensive plan to promote robotics by educating youth of Pakistan. Our plan will be
thoroughly discussed in the following text describing our vision of ROBOSPRINT in the future
and our motive of spreading robotics across country.

3.1 RoboSprint A National Event

In our view ROBOSPRINT in coming years will take form of an annual national robotics event
in its true sense. To make it a truly national event any interested university can bid for the
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event hosting at least a month before the commencement of the event. The National Board
(as discussed in 3.2) reviews the bid and vote for the best bid in case of multiple applicants.
The winner of the bid has the honor of hosting the ROBOSPRINT.

3.2 Educating EVERYONE The National Student Coordination Program

(NSCP), Special Robotics Seminars (SRS) & Online Technical Support
Program (OTSP)
The soul of ROBOSPRINT is to expand Robotics education nationwide. CASE has initiated a
National Student Coordination Program in this regard under which each registered team will be
assigned a Team Guide from CASE Robotics Group (CRG). The purpose of assigning a Team Guide
is to facilitate design, fabrication and control processes by guiding the participating teams from
all over Pakistan. Team Guide assigned to one of the teams can be a full-time faculty member of
CASE, a graduate student or a final year student who has worked in ABU ROBOCON/RoboCup
SSL and other national robotics projects in the past. He/She will be responsible to guide a
particular team registered for RoboSprint 2015. The guidance will include review of designs,
suggestions on electronic/mechanical design, trouble shooting, selection of appropriate sensors
and power bridges, contest rules confusions and queries, visit to practice field, trial runs at
practice field, accommodation and logistics during the contest, etc.

Another step is to arrange Special Robotics Seminars and workshops across the country which
will focus on contemporary robot designs and their implementations. Such sessions will also
address the frequent problems faced by students during their endeavor for RoboSprint.

The Online Technical Support program is an extension to NSCP and is a step ahead to facilitate
the learning curve for the technology. Through this program participants will get a chance to
interact with the experts of the field Nationwide. Robotics experts and senior academicians are
eagerly joining to help the enthusiast robosprinters, A social interaction group has already been
created and all the registered teams will be added in this group.

3.3 Online Education

CRG has already started an online channel called caseislamabad on Youtube. Critical circuit
design, troubleshooting and interface techniques will be uploaded online in form of video
tutorials.

3.4 Judges Panel for RoboSprint

In the National Board meeting, 3 members are designated as the judges for ROBOSPRINT.
They determine the Best Engineering Design and Best Idea Award awards as well as
scoring the teams during the competition.

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There are 4 Field Judges, two of which will be from the Host University and two from the
ROBOSPRINT Headquarters. They will assist the judges panel in making critical decisions.
The Chief Field Judge is from the ROBOSPRINT Headquarters.

3.5 Competition Day

The finalist teams for the final day will be selected a day prior to the competition day. There
will be following main awards:
General Category:
o 1st Position with a prize money of 125,000 PKR.
o 1st Runners-up with a prize money of 60,000 PKR
o 2nd Runner-up with a prize money of 40,000 PKR
o Best Engineering Design Award worth 50,000 PKR
o Best Idea Award worth 30,000 PKR
o 4x Participation Awards worth 60,000 PKR
Special Category Senior:
o 1st Position with a prize money of 40,000 PKR.
o 1st Runners-up with a prize money of 30,000 PKR
o 2nd Runner-up with a prize money of 20,000 PKR
Special Category Junior:
o 1st Position with a prize money of 30,000 PKR.
o 1st Runners-up with a prize money of 20,000 PKR
o 2nd Runner-up with a prize money of 10,000 PKR

These awards will be decided on the maximum points criterion pre-defined for each task in
a particular competition. If two teams share the same points, decision will be made on time
advantage.

In the General Category, which will focus on a challenging engineering task; based on
engineering ingenuity there will be a Best Engineering Design award and a Best Idea
Award worth 0.05 million PKR and 0.03 million PKR respectively. Both will be based on
outstanding engineering ingenuity displayed by a team and will be decided by the Judges
Panel.
Special Category is designed on a much simpler engineering task and will give opportunity
to junior year students to have valuable hands-on experience. All the prize money will be
awarded by the ROBOSPRINT Headquarters.

At the end, the competition flag will be handed over to the next Host University and the next
years theme will be revealed.

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3.6 Activity Plan
The competition is planned to last for four days. The tentative plan for the competition is as
under

Activity Day Comments

Competition Opens Thursday 1000 hrs onwards
Outstation Teams Arrival Thursday In coordination with team assistants

Practice Field will be available for

Practice Field Opens Thursday at least 12 hours from Thursday till
Saturday

QR will be administered
Qualifying Rounds Friday-Saturday from 0900hrs to 1800hrs
each day

RoboSprint 2015 Final Day

Sunday Will start at 1000 hrs
Opening Ceremony

Final Round (Quarter Finals

Sunday From 1030 hrs onwards
onwards for Special & General Category)

Closing Ceremony Sunday 1400 hrs

Lunch Sunday After Closing Ceremony

3.7 Team
The team of RoboSprint 2015 has been selected from full-time faculty members of CASE &
PAF KIET, students linked with the CASE Robotics Group, KIET Robotics Club and
professionals from CARE. All of the members make a highly dedicated team and their
experience in the field of robotics and event organization is extensive. The team will be
responsible to make sure smooth sailing of the competition from its inception in September
2013 to conclusion in July 2015.

3.8 National Board for RoboSprint

The National Board nominated by the President CASE for the ROBOSPRINT 2015 consists of
eminent faculty members from the best engineering institutes of Pakistan. The National
Board has the responsibility of determining the way ahead. The board suggests changes in
the future competitions and how much the skill level should be elevated each year to a more
challenging task without sacrificing viability.

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 Name Designation Post Comments

Patron In
Dr. Abdul Khaliq President CASE Chief Overall Head of proceedings
RoboSprint
Head
Mr. Iftekhar Mehmood Associate Chair, ECE RoboSprint In charge of Event Organization
Organization
In charge of Technical details
Director
Mr. Ali Syed Technical Lead CRG pertaining to Rules
RoboSprint
&Regulations

Assistant
Mr. Umer Farooq Design Engineer CARE In charge of Public Relations
Director
Technical
Mr. Syed Ali Jabir Group Lead Algorithm Development Support In In charge Queries Handling
charge
Technical
Mr. Atif Yaqub Group Lead Embedded Systems Committee In In charge Coordination
charge

National Board will also be responsible to evaluate each bid made by a university interested
in hosting the next years competition. The bid will be evaluated upon the feasibility plan
presented and the proposed theme.

3.8.1 National Board for RoboSprint 2015

Sr.
Name Affiliation Designation
No.
Dr. Waqar Al Khwarizmi Institute of
1 Director
Mahmood Computer Science
Dr. Aamir Iqbal Mohammad Ali Jinnah Dean Faculty of
2
Bhatti University Engineering
3 Dr. Malik Jehan NAMAL College, Mianwali Dean
4 Dr. Arshad Hussain FAST Lahore Director
Engr. Jehanzeb HOD Electrical
5 Bahria University, Islamabad
Ahmed Engineering Dept.
Dr. Muhammad
6 Habib University Karachi Dean
Shoaib
Dr. Saeed-ur- Center for Advanced Research
7 Director, CARE
Rehman in Engineering
8 Fessel Toosi UCP Lahore Associate Professor
9 Dr. Ataullah Memon PNEC NUST, Karachi Assistant Professor
10 Faizan Javaid PAF KIET, Karachi Lecturer

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 11 Engr M Asif SSUET Assistant Professor
12 Dr.YasirAyaz SMME NUST Assistant Professor
13 Dr. Mujtaba COMSATS Lahore Assistant Professor
14 Ms. Sahar Sultan LCWU Lecturer
15 Dr. Khurram NED University Assistant Professor

3.9 Technical Committee for RoboSprint

Technical committee at RoboSprint is responsible for coordination and assisting the National
board for the Rules and regulations of the competition. All the amendments in rules which
are to be approved by the National board are summarized by the Technical committee and
are sent for the final approval to the Board. Technical committee consists of experts from
academia and industry to facilitate the participants and respond to their queries relating to
the rules of the competition.

Sr.
Name
No
1 Ali Syed
2 Umer Farooq
3 Syed Ali Jabir
4 Atif Yaqub
5 Waqas Ur Rahman
6 Zain Ul Hassan
7 Arsalan Akhter
Email
alisyed@case.edu.pk
umer.farooq@case.edu.pk
syedalijabir@case.edu.pk
atif.yaqub@case.edu.pk
waqas.rahman@case.edu.pk
zain.hassan@case.edu.pk
arsalan_akter@ymail.com

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4 National RoboSprint 2015
RoboSprint 12, 13 and 14 being a great success now brings us to a step ahead which is
RoboSprint 2015. As promised, RoboSprint has secured the reputation of a platform for the
promotion of robotics through friendship when we are now, with the grace of Allah, the
largest National Educational Campaign in the field of Robotics in Pakistan.

Twenty fifteen brings us to the evolution in the era of vision when the robots are even smart
and they now navigate by artificially intelligent control using cameras as sensors. Theme of
this year not only enables the participants to practice the most latest standards in robotics
but also provide significant confidence for participation in world class competitions like
RoboCup. We at RoboSprint Headquarters believe that Pakistan has the required potential
to reach the heights in the field of robotics and we promise to make our best efforts for
providing the youth with the best learning platform through this game called RoboSprint.

4.1 Rules of the Game:

There are two categories for RoboSprint 2015. The General Category is the main one which
allows any university or school student to take part in the competition. General Categorys
task is complex and involves extensive brainstorming on mechanical/electrical designs and
ability to produce some intelligent algorithms. General Category has also a commensurate
prize money of 3,65,000 PKR. The task to be achieved under General Category has been
entailed briefly in 4.1.1 and all the main details given in this Rule Book are pertaining to the
General Category unless otherwise specified.

The Special Category is a simplistic version of General Category. This category revolves
around a subtask of General Category to encourage Junior Year students and School Students
to participate in the competition and learn from their experience when teams from all over
Pakistan gather in the National Arena of Robotics. Special Category has further been divided
into two leagues i.e. Special Category Senior and Special Category Junior. Special Category
Senior is open for anyone who is a registered student at any university of Pakistan. Special
Category Junior is reserved only for School Students from any registered school of Pakistan.
It may involve any student who is in 12th grade or lower. Special Category Task has been
briefly described in 4.2 and special attention pertaining to the Rules & Regulations has been
given in Section 12 of this Rule Book. The Special Category Senior carries prize money of
90,000 PKR, whereas Special Category Junior carries prize money worth of 60,000 PKR.

Welcome to National RoboSprint 2015, yes we welcome you to the era of imagination in
robotics where you will teach the machines to play football. Welcome to the most interesting
theme ever in Pakistan.

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 Figure 1Top View of field for RoboSprint '14

Refer to the detailed demonstration of the game play in the link below

Host Institute will setup the arena and the game field which will be equipped with two
cameras interfaced with a SSL Vision server. The server will provide necessary information
like position of ball plus location and orientation of ally and opponent robots in the game
field via Ethernet. Hence teams are required to make sure that their system is compatible
with the outputs provided by SSL Vision Server and incorporates compensations for any
possible sensory noises, delays and latencies present in the output. Please note that standard
team pads will be provided by the host institute to be mounted on each teams robot for
identification purposes. Vision system will not be able to provide the mentioned information
without mounting these pads. Therefore teams are required to construct a compatible
platform where these pads could be mounted (details mentioned in the field dimension
section of this rule book). Figure 2 demonstrates the complete system. Teams are required
to bring their own Team servers (Laptops) to avoid any unexpected problems.

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 Figure 2 SSL Vision overview

As it is evident in the figure above that the teams are responsible to program their servers
which will send control commands to the robots for required actions. Teams are encouraged
to develop an automatic server which may be able to run the whole match without human
intrusion. But teams have an option to manually set a required strategy as per details
mentioned in section 4.1.6

Game Procedure
4.1.1 The time duration for qualifying round will be 3 minutes. (Qualifying task will be
announced later)
4.1.2 Each head-on match will consist of two halves, 3 minutes each with a break of 60
seconds in between.
4.1.3 A setup time of 3 minutes will be awarded to setup robots, teams AI servers and SSL
Vision configuration before each match.
4.1.3.1 Teams failing to complete the setup within the setup time cannot continue the
setup during the match time. Refer to section 4.1.8 for further details.
4.1.3.2 Teams will be given at least two time slots of 15 minutes each to configure and
run compatibility tests with SSL vision server during the practice sessions
scheduled before qualifying rounds and quarter finals.
4.1.4 A maximum of 3 members from each participant team can setup robots and team AI
server during the setup time; one as a team AI server operator and others for calling
time out(s) and fixing robot(s) if required during the time out.

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4.1.5 Each team is required to have two automatic robots for the match. Robots will play a
football match under the rules entailed in this rule book. Team scoring most goals will
be declared Robo-Zidane. The name is inspired by the great Muslim football player
Zain-ud-din Zidane.
4.1.6 Teams are allowed to manually set a strategy relating to tasks like kick off, free kick,
penalty kick etc. Strategies can be activated at any point of time during the play using
GUI-template (see Appendix A).
4.1.7 A standard GUI-template will be provided to the teams with standard buttons for
manually activating strategies at the team AI server. Teams are required to follow the
provided GUI-template and write their own algorithms for the strategies.
4.1.8 In case the robots of a particular team have malfunctioned during the match, the team
has an opportunity to resolve the issues by availing the time out(s) available (see
section 4.1.13).
4.1.8.1 In case a team consumes all its timeout(s) then without removing robots from
the field, the team can either wait for the game time to expire or they can call off the
match declaring the opponent team as winner.
4.1.8.2 If a team does not forfeit and decides to continue with the match then
opponent team can score goals in the remaining game time. In this scenario
however, the possession rules (see section 4.1.10) do not apply.

Game Tasks & Restrictions

4.1.9 The possession at kick-off will be decided by a coin toss. At the kick-off, the defending
team has to stay in its own half and outside the center circle mentioned in the game
field.
4.1.10 A robot of a particular team is not allowed to keep the possession of the ball for more
than 10 seconds. Ball can be passed to the ally robot to avoid foul of over possession.
4.1.10.1 Snatching of ball from the opponent team is not allowed. Both teams are
required to maintain a one robot distance (24cm) from each other to avoid collision.
4.1.11 While a team is availing an awarded free kick/corner kick/throw-in, the opponent
teams robot(s) must stay away from the striker at a distance which is at least two
times a robot (2 x 24cm).
4.1.12 Following subsection describes the procedure of availing a free kick/corner
kick/throw in.
4.1.12.1 Whenever the referee whistles for a foul, both the teams are required to stop
their robots using GUI (see Appendix A)
4.1.12.2 The referee will place the ball in the field and will announce the awardee of
the free kick before blowing the second whistle. In this time robots are not allowed
to move.

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 4.1.12.3 At the second whistle of the referee, free kick awardee team will press Take
Free Kick button from the GUI and opponent team will click Defend Free Kick
from the GUI (see Appendix A)
4.1.12.4 Simultaneously with the referees second whistle, a 5 seconds timer will start;
with-in this time teams are required to take their defending/attacking positions.
Within these 5 seconds free kick awardee team is not allowed to kick the ball.
4.1.12.5 After these 5 seconds the free kick awardee team can take free kick within next
5 seconds. If the robot is unable to take the free kick within these 5 secs then it will
be considered a foul and a free kick will be awarded to the opponent team

4.1.13 Each team will be awarded only one time out in qualifying rounds and two time outs
in head-on matches.
4.1.13.1 Time out(s) can only be availed after asking the permission from the Match
Referee.
4.1.13.2 Time out(s) cannot be taken while the ball is in play.
4.1.13.3 Duration of a single time-out is 60 seconds.

Winner Team
4.1.14 Team scoring more number of goals is considered as winner.
4.1.14.1 In case the number of goals is equal, winner will be decided through Penalty
Kicks.
4.1.14.2 Each team will be awarded with 5 penalty kick opportunities.
4.1.14.3 Time to avail Penalty kick after Referees whistle is 5 seconds. The opportunity
will be expired after the mentioned time.
4.1.15 In case the opponent team do not appear in the arena within a time of 2 minutes after
announcement call, the present team will be declared as winner.
4.1.16 In case the opponent team is disqualified by Judges, the other team is declared as the
winner.
4.1.17 In a specific match, if it is evident that the participating teams are not able to complete
the task required to be declared a winner, then the team of judges can ask both teams
to perform a customized task in order to decide the match winner.

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4.2 Game Arena Specifications
4.2.1 The field consists of a Game area with the dimensions of 7400 x 5400 mm as
mentioned in the figure below.
4.2.2 All dimensions in the figure above have been taken from the center of the tape.
4.2.3 The field consists of an Army Green colored carpet attached on a wooden base.
4.2.4 The field is surrounded by a wooden fence having a height of 100mm and width of
20mm.

Figure 3 Dimensions of the complete field (taken from RoboCup 14 SSL rulebook)

4.3 Game Tools Specifications

4.3.1 An orange colored golf ball with a standard radius of 21.3 mm and weight of 45.93gms
is used as Football in the game.

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Figure 4 Standard golf ball
4.3.2 Goal post can be made up of any material which is installed on the field and is fixed.
The post has the height, depth and width of 300mm, 240mm and 800mm respectively.

4.3.3 Standard team pads will be given by the host institute to the participating teams.
These pads are used to detect teams robot through SSL vision. These pads have two
different colors yellow and blue where each color represents a different team. Figure
6 shows the patterns to be followed.

Figure 5 Patterns for detection of robots in SSL Vision

4.3.4 Team 1 is awarded with the pads having Yellow circle in the center (Figure 6) and
Team 2 will be awarded with team pads having Blue circle in the center. Standard
dimensions for the pads are shown in Figure 7.

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 Figure 6 Dimensions for team pads

4.3.5 Colors used in the arena have the following RGB codes.
Green 0-255-0
Blue 0-0-255
Yellow 255-555-0
Pink 255-0-255
Black 0-0-0

Note: Please note that all the dimensions mentioned in this rulebook regarding arena and tools
can have a tolerance of 5 %.

4.4 Robot Design Specifications

4.4.1 Robots must fit in a circle of 300mm diameter.
4.4.1.1 All extensions must fit in the given dimensions i.e. a circle with a diameter of
300mm.
4.4.2 Height of each robot must not exceed 240mm.
4.4.3 The maximum weight limit is 15 kg for each robot.
4.4.4 Pneumatic actuators up to a maximum pressure of 6 bars are allowed.
4.4.5 While designing the robots team must keep in mind that possession of the ball may
only be kept in the correct ways mentioned in the Figure 8.

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 Figure 7 Correct way of possession by a robot

4.4.6 As it is evident in the figure above that the robot frames must be deigned in a way that
while the ball is in possession when seen from the top, at least 75% of the ball must
be visible.
4.4.7 Teams must use battery packs to power up their robots. Provision of supply through
cords from mains to the robot is not allowed.

4.5 Safety Guidelines

4.5.1 Robots must be designed in a way that they must not in any aspect be
harmful/dangerous.
4.5.2 Robots should not contain any sharp edges or incompletely machined parts to avoid
any mishap during the contest.
4.5.3 Teams are encouraged to use motor drivers with over current protections and
temperature sensors.
4.5.4 Robots should be properly wired and must be powered up by safe switches instead
of just wire connections.
4.5.5 Robots should be properly wired and they must not in any aspect reflect dangerous
insulation practice which may cause short circuit and other damages.
4.5.6 Teams using laser as sensor may only take class 2 or less as an option.

4.6 Violations
4.6.1 Ball can be kicked with a speed which is equal to or less than 4 m/s. hitting the ball
over this speed is a violation and will result in free kick to the opponent team. If the
robot kicking the ball is present inside the D of opponent team a penalty kick is
awarded instead.
4.6.2 Robots are required to keep one robot (30 cm) distance from each other, otherwise a
violation will occur and the opponent team will be awarded a free kick if the team
with possession was outside the D and a penalty kick if it was inside the D of the
opponent team.

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4.6.3 Pushing a robot of the opponent team is a violation and a free kick or a penalty kick
is awarded to the opponent team at the occurrence,
4.6.4 Intentionally targeting the opponent team with the ball is a violation and a free kick
or a penalty kick will be awarded according to the position of the occurrence of
violation.

4.7 Disqualifications
The team is considered disqualified if it commits any of the following:
4.7.1 The team performs any acts that are not in the spirit of fair play.
4.7.2 The team fails to obey instructions/warnings issued by match referee.
4.7.3 The team tries to damage arena, facilities, equipment or the opponent robots.
4.7.4 Over weight robot(s).
4.7.5 Team robot(s) are exceeding the mentioned dimensions.
4.7.6 The team does not meet the safety criteria mentioned in the section 4.5.

4.8 Participation details

4.7.7 A maximum of 10 members per team are allowed.
4.7.8 Only undergrad students are allowed to take part in the general category.
4.7.9 Students from different universities can team up to participate in the contest.
4.7.10 Teams are encouraged to hunt sponsorships to cover the incurred cost at the robots.
4.7.11 Teams are required to submit a report (as per format provided by RoboSprint
Headquarters) containing robot manufacturing and control details in order to be
eligible for the awards; at least 1 week before the competition.

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5 Contact Us/Feedback & Suggestions
Your feedback and suggestions for improvement are very important for us and you are highly
encouraged to send the valuable comments on the following addresses or those mentioned
in section 3.9 of the document.
Head Quarters:
Mr. Ali Syed Director RoboSprint ali@robosprint.com
Mr. Umer Farooq Assistant Director info@robosprint.com
Mr. Mobeen Younas President Student Body president @robosprint.com

Host:
Mr. Najeeb H Jafri Director COE PAK KIET robosprint@pafkiet.edu.pk
Mr. Faizan Javiad Patron KRC robosprint@pafkiet.edu.pk

Website: www.robosprint.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RoboSprintOffcial

6 Amendments & Endorsements

6.1 This Rulebook is prepared by the technical committee (as mentioned in section 3.9 of
this document) for the endorsement and approval of National Board of RoboSprint (as
mentioned in section 3.8 of this document).
Please note that only National Board reserves the right to amend, append or change this
document as per requirement without any prior notice. All the revised versions and
amendments will be posted by the host institute on social media and website.
6.2 The legitimacy of any actions not provided in this rule book will be subject to discretion
of the Judges Panel which will be randomly selected by National Board comprising of
leading professors from universities all over Pakistan.

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7 Our Partners

PAF KIET Karachi University of Central Punjab

CASE Robotics Group

www.letsinnovate.net

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Appendix A

*Note: Teams can write their own algorithms for Strategy 1/2/3 buttons while rest of the buttons
must have the strategy as per task name.

**Note: Teams are allowed to change their strategies while the ball is in play but this option
must NOT be used to manually control the robots.

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