Robotix Kolkata Workshop

ROBOTIX @ Kshitij 2012 IIT Kharagpur

Largest Robotics competition in South-East Asia. Conducted during Kshitij

Annual Techno – Management fest of IIT Kharagpur, biggest fest in Asia in terms of prize money and participation.

National and international participation. Prizes for ROBOTIX 2012 worth over INR 3 lacs.

Event Categories

Image Processing

Manual

Autonomous Online Coding

Events 2012

INFERNO

STASIS

VERTIGO

STALKER

ECHELON

NUKE CLEAR

Build a manually controlled robot or a group of robots which can retrieve people (cylinders) from buildings affected by fire, bring them to the safety zone and fight fire. The tasks include those done by a fire rescue team.

Category: Manual

Note: The robot(fire fighter) and the building are in same proportion as in real life fire rescue.

TASKS: Rescue people(cylinders) placed at different heights

Extinguish fire(candles) using water provided.

Representative Arena (round one)

Representative Arena (round two)

Representative arena (round three)

Build two separate autonomous robots such that the first robot is capable of line following and the second robot can trace the path followed by the first robot on another surface.

Category: Autonomous

Representative Arena

Build two autonomous robots that can communicate, such that one guides the other through a glass surface Communication through (or around) a glass barrier.

TASK: One of the autonomous robots (guide) needs to

follow a preset line on the lower surface. Other autonomous robot (follower) needs to retrace

the path followed by the guide robot on another surface above it. Lower surface: Black background with white lines. Upper surface: Transparent and identical in shape to the lower surface.

STASIS Build a robot that balances a vessel filled with liquid while traversing over irregular terrains. The robot has to prevent the liquid from spilling.

Category: Autonomous/Manual

Container:

Representative Arena

Use of suspension systems to balance a container of water.

Container consists of:

Inner container: Contains water and will be open.

Outer container: Will be sealed. The two containers behave as a single entity. Amount of water left in the inner container will be used to calculate the score.

NUKE CLEAR Build a autonomous image processing robot which can traverse around bombsites(rooms), locate and disarm bombs(spheres).

Category: Image Processing

Shape detection, Color detection

Top View of the bombsite(room)

Task:

Navigate to different rooms (bombsites) connected via multiple paths.

Detect the bombs. Diffuse the bomb by pressing the correct button

which are differentiated on the basis of color.

Live video feeds each covering a bombsite and together covering the whole arena will be provided.

ECHELON Apply the basic principles of Natural Language Processing to identify people on a chat. Each participant is required to submit a computer program that is capable of processing electronic communication between multiple, anonymous netizens.

Category: Online Coding

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages

From a random IRC (Internet Relay Chat) log, a small percentage of the user nicknames will be randomly deleted. The participant’s code must be able to figure out “who could have said what”.

Use of any and more than one programming languages is allowed.

Why participate? Online submissions A pivotal aspect of Artificial Intelligence is Natural

Language Processing (NLP), which, as the name suggests, involves a range of computational techniques to achieve human-like processing of the languages we use to communicate.

If you can implement an approach that yields a good result, you could present it at an Artificial Intelligence conference.

Build a manual robot capable of clasping and moving on a zip line with the ability to store and drop balls in the targets underneath and switch between paths.

Category: Manual

TASK: Clasp and move along ziplines (steel rods in our case) Store and drop balls in dropzones

Zipline: Steel bars of square cross-section (1 inch x 1 inch) Balls: Steel balls of diameter 1.5 cm. Dropzones: Consists of three concentric cylinders. (similar to a bullseye)

Representative Arena (Round one)

Presenting for the very first time, an event in which a robot has to traverse through ziplines

Representative Arena (Round two)

Isometric view Top view

Mechanisms Clasping and Traversing

Mechanisms Reclasping

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