The Competition

A competition will be held Friday afternoon.

The 5 competition assignments are described below.

Each team will have two attempts at each assignment. The points will be summed. The team with most points will be the winner.

Task 1 - Find a Measure Distance to Box

The robot should start at ’Start’, go to the box and show the measured distance L in the display.

The distance is known to be between 2 and 3 meters.

Points: +/- 5 cm 2 points, +/- 10 cm 1 point.

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Task 2 - Open Door and go into Garage

Points: 1 point for opening the door and 1 point for going into the garage

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Task 3 - The Pushbox obstacle

The robot must push away the cardboard box and go through the two sidegates.

Points: 1 point for each gate

Task 4 - The Golf Course

The robot must start at ’Start’ and push the blue balls past the upper line and the orange ball past the lower line.

Points: 1 point for each ball that passes the correct line and -1 point for each ball that passes the wrong line.

Task 5 - The Odometry Test

The robot must start at ’Start’ and go one time around the wooden cylinders and back to the starting point. The error is the distance between the starting and ending point.
Two runs must be done, one clockwise and the other counter clockwise.
The resulting error is the sum of the two errors
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