Bots v/s Wild

By Robotics Club

For Y10 robotics enthusiasts: Your robot has to be the legendary "BEAR GRYLLS", must survive and get out of the wild using animal instincts and animal themselves.

Task

The problem is simple: Detect a cliff, find the binary number hidden in the zebra stripes and imitate the same.

Event Specifications:

• A manually controlled robot is to be constructed which traverses the arena like that in the figure below. The robot has to detect the strips automatically. Whenever it detects the strip it has to indicate it by some mean (e.g. glowing an LED). It should clearly show whether it has detected a white or black.
• Only driving motors will be controlled manually, rest of the task is to be done automatically.
• If a cliff (hurdle in the shape of a block) is encountered on the path, it should detect it (automatically and not manually) and also show that a cliff has been detected (again by some means e.g. LED). By detection of the cliff, we mean that though operator knows where the cliff is, he cannot glow an indicator on such turn manually, but bot should detect it by itself (with the help of a sensor or a switch) and indicate the presence of cliff.
• At the end of the first journey, the robot should show the binary number hidden in the zebra strip. If he is correct he has to move to the next part of arena.
• In this part the bot has to show the binary number found in its last journey on another zebra strip comprising of alternate black and white strip (e.g. if the first binary digit was one then bot would indicate on the white strip of the first white and black strip).

Team Specifications:

• Maximum 5 members in a team.

Constraints:

• The bot dimensions should not exceed 25 x 25 sq cm.
• Maximum number of sensors that can be used is TWO.
• Maximum voltage supply should not exceed 12 volts at any point of time.

Scoring:

• For every cliff detection, 15 points shall be awarded.
• For every correct stripe detection, 10 points will be awarded
• For final correct binary number, 20 points would be awarded.
• For every correct strip shown according to binary number detected 10 points would be awarded.

Decision of Judges and Coordinators will be final in case of any discrepancy.

THE TEAM WITH THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF POINTS WINS!!

Contacts:

Anmol Pandey	anmolp@iitk.ac.in	+91 9454950394
Suhas Banshiwala	sbanshi@iitk.ac.in	+91 9532095127
Vikas Mishra	vikasm@iitk.ac.in	+91 9005850194