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COMSATS INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & IDEA SOCIETY

INTRODUCTION The world of robotics has always fascinated students and engineers. Historically, ROBIANS were consider a robotic nation with no will and thinking power. considered power After death of Dr. IVO ROBOTNIK who used to reprogram them to have the . capability of free thinking CIIT is adopting ROBIANS and its your responsibility thinking, now to make use of them. How interesting it would be to have your own ROBIAN? . COMSATS Islamabad is organizing ROBIAN12: the first ever robotic contest in the history of COMSATS. : The main objectives are to unleash talent in students and to provide an opportunity for them to develop expertise in various fields of robotics and mechatronics. Not less importantly, this competition is aimed at preparing the ot students to face and accomplish challenges in their future career life and to develop sense of sportsman spirit. OBJECTIVES
To work together as a team to solve challenging problems with spirit of C3 (Cooperation, Coordination and Collaboration ollaboration). To enable students to develop logical and systematic thinking during their design and implementation of developed algorithms to program robots intended for accomplishment of a challenging task . task. To enhance students creativity by developing problem solving skills and by raising their awareness of the multiple possibilities to achieve a desired goal. To promote competition in robotics.

Competition Date: Thursday 24th May 2012 Thursday,

Competition Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Electrical Engineering, CIIT Islamabad.

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THE CONTEST ARENA The theme for the 2nd ROBIABN is a complicated line following scenario. The corresponding arena provides best compromise among various considerable parameters including interest level, complexity depth and timeframe of three months for robot development. The arena is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Contest Arena

FLOOR DIMENSIONS
i. The Contest Arena is made by Waterproof Floor Mat sheets of size 400 X 250 cm. ii. Fixed Lines are marked on the arena. The Lines are made from 3 cm wide White Reflector Tape. iii. Starting and ending points are marked on the floor. iv. The three square shaped disaster sites have dimensions of 30.48cm X 30.48 cm v. The fourth disaster side is a semi-circle with radius 30.48 cm

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Initial starting point of robot is fixed i.e. mentioned in the Figure 1. Each robot will act as an emergency response vehicle that will have to reach the four disaster sites in the least possible time. All disaster sites have been highlighted with red color. Initially, each robot will first reach the Checkpost, which is 1 feet away from the starting point. Valuable marks will be awarded. (See points table). Than after entering the arena through the Checkpost, the autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) will have to reach the disaster sites and intelligently track through the possible paths provided by the white line. The closest disaster site is FIRE highlighted by red in Figure 1. It is easily assessable and so contains the least marks. In order to gain those points, the robot will have to track any one of the four sides of the 1-square-feet box. The points will be awarded if the UGV fully traverses any one side of the four-sided disaster site. Similarly, the next disaster side is the CAR ACCIDENT which has only two routes available. The third side BANK ROBBERY has a more difficult approach. The last site TERRORIST ATTACK is the farthest and the toughest of the emergency locations because in order to gain the points for this site, robots will have to track a curved line between any two of the three points (A, B, C) marked, as shown on Figure 1.

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ROBOT SIZE AND WEIGHT

i. Maximum size of robot can be 1ft * 1ft (30.48 cm * 30.48 cm) ii. Maximum weight of participating robot can be 5Kg. All sensors mounted on the robot will be counted as part of the robots total dimensions. Adding of any non-functional material like flag or logo is allowed after measurement. Note: See penalties section for oversized / overweight robots.

SENSORS
There is no restriction on the type of sensors that can be used. However, contestants are not allowed to place any markers, beacons or reflectors in the contest area to aid in the robots navigation.

POWER SUPPLY
Robot should have on-board power source and maximum supply voltage allowed is 18 Volts.

TEAMS
A team can only be composed of maximum 4 members. The names and registration numbers of the team members should be communicated within 1 week (till 1st March 2012) to front office EE Department.

DURATION OF MATCH
i. Each team will be given maximum 9 minutes to complete their task. However, team may be asked to stop the robot earlier if the referees decide that the task cannot be completed due to mechanical problems or for safety reason. ii. Each team will be given 1 minute for setting up the robot at the start point. iii. Robot can start at the instant when the start signal is given. It is highly recommended that your robot must be constructed in a way that it can be started in minimum possible operation(s).

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iv. Once the robot started moving, team members will not be allowed to touch the robot or enter in the contest arena. v. The robot timing will start immediately after the contestant releases the robot in arena.

POINTS
i. Successful approach to the CheckPost
ii. Tracking any one side of the disaster site FIRE iii. Tracking any one side of the disaster site CAR ACCIDENT iv. Tracking any one side of the disaster site BANK ROBBERY v. Tracking any of the two points on the curved disaster site TERRORIST ATTACK vi. Successful exit through Ending Point vii. Line Tracking (Atleast 8 feet) 45 marks 50 marks 5 marks 10 marks 20 marks 30 marks 40 marks

DEDUCTION OF POINTS
i. Retry number 1 ii. Retry number 2 iii. Oversize robot (Exceeding 30.48 cm * 30.48 cm) iv. Oversize robot (Exceeding 32.48 cm * 32.48 cm) v. Overweight robot (Exceeding 5Kg)
vi. Overweight robot (Exceeding 6Kg) 5 marks 10 marks 20 marks Disqualified
40 marks Disqualified

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RULES
i. The Contest judges may stop any robot at any time if they feel that it is performing, or is about to perform, any action that is dangerous or hazardous to people or equipment. Robot should have Emergency Stop button (probably implemented by giving an interrupt of highest priority to the controller to stop the motors immediately or even more simply emergency stop through turning off the Power supply). ii. All electronic circuitry must be designed and fabricated by the contestants themselves. No Off-the-Shelf boards will be allowed. iii. Total cost incurred on robot must not exceed Rs. 15,000/iv. Maximum efforts in the design and fabrication of the robot should be put in by contestants themselves. v. In all matters of interpreting the rules before and during the contest and in any issues not covered by these rules, the decisions of the contest judging committee will be final. However the committee will be bound to enforce the rules homogeneously to ensure justice and equality.

TEST RUN
Contestants will be given time for trial run a day before the contest to calibrate their robot/sensors on the actual arena/game field. PRIZES Winner 1st Runner Up 2nd Runner Up Best Engineering Design

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Additionally all those teams whose robots manage to traverse at least 2 disaster sites who (out of 4) will be awarded with Certificate of successful participation by ROBIAN12 Certificate participation organizers. ORGANIZERS Dr. JAMSHED IQBAL Mr. AHSAN MALIK (& IDEA Student Society) Mr. MUSTAFA PASHA Mr. WAQAR SAEED Mr. SOHAIL KHAN Mr. IRFANULLAH Mr. NOMAN JALIL Mr. RAHEEL AHMAD Mr. ABDUS SAMAD Mr. MUMTAZ ALI Mr. FAHD SIKANDAR KHAN Mr. ANUM ALI Under the patronage and supervision of: Dr. HAROON Dr. SHAHID A. KHAN Dr. SHAFAYAT ABRAR