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Robotics Contest
Joint with VII SBAI (Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation and
II IEEE-LARS (Latin American Robotics Symposium)
Figure 1 - Robot inside the starting room, in the garbage industry. Garbage bowls are shown.
3 Specifications:
a) Robot
The robot must be designed and constructed, starting from zero, by the students of the team. It
can be used basic electronics and mechanics components commercially available in the market
(as gears, wheels, resistors, microcontrollers, motors, etc) as well as software functions, since
these parts are not component of any commercially available product (as for example
prototyping robotics kits as Lego, Robix, etc). Prior constructed, upgraded, robots (including
software and hardware architectures) can be used, as far as they have been constructed by
students in the institution and obey the above rules (have not used any commercially available
robotics bases and have been constructed by students in the institution). In both cases (new or
upgraded hardware and software), a report including project, parts, components, constructors,
hardware, software, main features, etc, must be written and send to the Technical Program
(responsible Prof. Leandro leandro@inf.ufpr.br). This report, besides presented at the
LARS/SBAI symposium in the category poster, will also be evaluated and judged by the
Technical Committee in order to accept (or not) team registration, deciding if the robot is
allowed to participate on the contest. The registration will be confirmed by email at most three
days after the registration period ends (see competition web site). The decision of the Committee
can be contested by the team coach, which will have to present arguments to ensure the above
conditions, in the following 2 days after the decision. After this, any decision of the Committee
can not be contested by the coach or team members or institution. Any final decisions of the
Technical Committee can not be contested. Remember the competition main idea is to promote
robotics in Latin America, to propose scientific new solutions for robotics fields, and to make
the competition a challenge between students, not to do marketing of any company, besides the
scientific advances can be used by those in future. The robot will have to fit in a box of size 50 x
40 x 40 cm, including any manipulator extended at its maximum.
b) Balls:
The balls will be made by a light, dry wood, with approximate weights of 20 to 40 grams
(smaller), 30 to 70 grams (medium), and 60 to 90 grams (bigger). Exactly weights, with
precision of 10%, will be posted with 20 days in advance on the competition home page
(http://www.dee.ufma.br/sbailars/). Spheres diameters are of (approximate) 3.5 cm, 5.0 cm, and
6.5 cm, respectively. The balls will be painted by a, not bright, colored paint (blue, red and
green). Balls will be randomly distributed in the environment. There will have only three balls in
the environment, including one ball of each color. The bigger ball is colored in red, the medium
ball colored in green and the small ball in blue.
100 cm 100 cm
100 cm 60 cm 60 cm 100 cm
400cm
d) Garbage bowls
Garbage bowls will be fixed on the floor, predefined or randomly placed at the beginning of
each team contest. Bowls will be made of a hard material (preferably handled wood, constructed
using machinery). It will have external, cylindrical shape and concave interior of at least 15 cm
high by 25 cm of diameter, in such a way that at least three spheres of bigger size fit inside its
interior.
25 cm 25 cm 25 cm
15 cm 15 cm 15 cm
4 The Champion
Winner is the robot who catches all balls and put all of them in the respective bowls, in a minimum
time. First decision is the number of balls. Second is time spent in the mission accomplishment.