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2007 : MASLab 2005 Contest
Fifteen teams participated in the fifth annual MASLab Robotics Exhibition and Contest which took place on January 28, 2005. Over 450 spectators crowded into room 26-100 to watch the students show off their hard work and they were not disappointed. Many robots successfully collected several red balls and then deposited them either in front of, through, or over the mouse-holes.
Media
Photographs of the competition are in the MASLab 2005 gallery.
- The Tech Newspaper Article ( HTML | PDF )
- Tech Talk Newspaper Article ( HTML )
- Contest Program ( PDF )
- Highlight Video
Results
- Best Dressed Robot (based on audience voting): Bombers
- Highest Score: Order of Random Cauchy
- Maslab Engineering Award (awarded by Maslab Staff to the team with the best engineering prowess, be it software, hardware, or mechanical, regardless of final score): Team 11
Contest Rules
Robots attempt to gather red balls and transport through (3 points) or over (5 points) holes in the playing field walls. Robots operate autonomously. Each robot runs by itself in the playing field for 3 minutes with an optional 3 minute exploration round. Targets on the "porch" of a mousehole or in possession of the robot earn one point.
The playing field is essentially unknown and must be discovered by the robot during the course of the competition. To aid feature recognition, equally spaced, identically color, blue tick marks 1.5-inch wide will be placed on the wall. The walls will also feature vertical green and black bar codes with five bits. Every bar code will have an odd number of green bits (this can be a check for your code). The bar code will be 10 inches tall and 2 inches wide (each bit will be a 2 inch by 2 inch square).