Robotix (competition)
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.:ROBOTIX:. is an international level robotics and programming event, organised anually by the students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur or IIT KGP as it is knwon is one of the premier technical institutes of India. It is the oldest and the largest among all the IITs.
.:ROBOTIX:. is organised during the annual techno-management fest of the institute. Partcipation is open to students from all over the world. The event gives the contestants an opportunity to showcase their talent in the fields of mechanical robotics, autonomous robotics and programming.
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[edit] HIstory
.:ROBOTIX:. started off in the year 2002, under IDEON, the then tech-fest of IIT KGP. It started as in in-house event for the students of IIT KGP. 28 teams turned up in the inaugural year. IDEON became Kshitij in 2003. Kshitij is the annual techno-management fest of the institute. Currently, .:ROBOTIX:. is organised under the umbrella of Kshitij. The partcipation has undergone exponential growth over the years with 220 teams turning up for .:ROBOTIX:. 2006. Thus there was a 1000% increase in participation over 5 years. At the same time .:ROBOTIX:. expanded its horizon, and is currently an international level event.
[edit] The Event
The events pitts the robots of the participants against each other in an arena. Events are either of solo-run type or one-on-one type. In a solo-run event, the bot is given free run in the arena, and then evaluated on various marking criteria like time taken, task completed and efficiency etc. In a one-on-one event (usually employed in knockout rounds), two or more teams fight against each other. There is a direct competition between the two teams and only team makes through.
Events during .:ROBOTIX:. are conducted under three categories -- mechanical, autonomous and programming.
- Mechanical Events
In a mechanical event, the robot is manually controlled by the participant with the help of a remote control. The remote system may be wired or unwired. The robot then has to perform the specifed task. The event maybe be held as a solo run type or a one-on-one type.
- Autonomous Events
In autonomous events, robots are independent and participants are not allowed to control them in any way during their run. These robots usually use programmed microcontrollers that lends the robots its decision making powers. Here too, the event maybe solo-run or one-on-one type.
- Programming Events
Partcipants are required to write program codes in these events, to solve the problem that has been posed. Online participation is allowed in programming events.
[edit] Robotix 2007
Robotix 2007 is going to be held from 1st to 4th Frbruary 2007. Six events are going to be held, two each from the three fields of robotics: programming, autonomous and mechanical. For details log on to http://www.robotixiitkgp.org
The events are:
[edit] Autonomous Events
RAIL TRACK INSPECTOR
In Rail Track Inspector, the participants are required to build a robot that can follow two parallel white lines, 5 cm apart, on a black baground and report errors, if any, as and when they occur. The errors can be of two types:
- The distance between the white lines may differ from their specified gap.
- One of the white lines may beocme discontinuous.
The robot is required to identify both the errors separately.
GRID NAVIGATOR
Grid Navigator, requires participants to build autonomous robots that can move in a 8x8 square maze ans can detect the position of obsatcles placed in the maze without dislocating it. The maze shall be in the form of a two dimensional numbered grid. Sqaures will be marked with white lines on a black background. The robot has to start from of end of the maze and reach the diagonally opposite end after identifying all the obstacles. The robot is free to roam in the grid in any way it so chooses.
[edit] Programming - Online Events
MISSION MARS
MIssion Mars has been a benchmark event for .:ROBOTIX:. It requires the participants to write codes to control robot ants on a simulated martian surafce, such that it can conver the maximum area in a given time. Multiple instances of the same program shall be run at the same time, and they should be able to communicate with each other to prevent any collision, which will render both the robots extinct. Though this sounds cumbersome, the official website says that no networking knowledge is required for coding. The competition gives its participants the liberty to code in either C or C++ or JAVA.
JIGSAW
In Jigsaw, the participants are required to write a code that can unjumble a jumbled up picture. The picture will be broken up into fragments and jumbled up using a program itself. As per the rules mentioned on the official website, the top left corner of the jumbled picture shall be the same as the original picture. Here, the participants are allowed to code either in C or C++.
[edit] Mechanical Events
LOAD RUNNER
Load runner requires participants to build a manually controlled robot that has a hooking mechanism so that it can hook up to freights and link them together to form a train. It then has to form the engine of the same train and pull it to its destination. According to the official website, use of magnetic material to attach to the freights is prohibited.
STEP CLIMBER
In this event, participants are required to build a manually controlled robot that can climb up and down a fligh of stairs. The height of the steps shall vary up and down the stairs.
[edit] The .:ROBOTIX:. Team
Currently there are 33 members in .:ROBOTIX:. Senior members are designated as Co-ordinators, Heads and Subheads. The team comprises:
- Co-ordinators
- Chintan Thakkar
- Sumandeep Bannerjee
- Anant Choubey
- Hema Swetha Koppula
- Prithviraj Bannerjee
- Sabyasachi Das
- Shourya Ghosh
- Tathagata Das
- Tushar Sinha
- Vikash Ranjan Parida
- Heads
- Aamir Ahmed
- Abhinav sarkar
- Abhishek Goel
- Abhishek Sasmal
- Prerit Srivastava
- Sub-Heads
- Akash Agrawal
- Anshuman Tiwari
- Apurv Gupta
- Deepshikha
- Gaurav Bhadoria
- Kaustubh Gururaj
- Kaustubh Tripathi
- Kumar Ritwik
- Subhendu Panigrahi
[edit] External Links
mail at : contact@robotixiitkgp.org
