Introduction
This year’s National Robotics Competition was held during the September school holidays. We sent 3 senior teams and 6 junior teams to participate in this year’s competition.
Senior category
For this year’s competition, the robot has to move a large lego block (food container) to another holding area, picking up the corresponding colour container from there. It would then have to shift a small lego brick and load it onto a ship and cover it with the container before pushing it into the ‘sea’. This process then repeats for another 2 more colours.
All 3 senior teams did not perform very well as the programming was very rushed and incomplete. Team Magnetic Field and Electromagnetic Field was nominated for the mechanical design and presentation award respectively.
Do check out some of our cool designs below!
Junior category
In lieu of the theme of precision farming, the mission of the robot is to gather data on the soil quality of the fields of different farms (by scanning black and white blocks) The robot would then use this data to plant different coloured seedlings in different orders.
Due to the much tougher competition in the junior category, only team Cotton Plantation placed in the top 20 and made it to the robot game finals. The team eventually went on to bag multiple awards and finished 3rd overall.
Do also check out one of our full point runs below (in just above 1min!) Unfortunately, the robot proved to be too complex and difficult to build in 3 hours and the team did not manage to get the robot up and running to its full potential at the competition.
Final award tally:
- 3rd Overall
- 3rd Best Engineering Award
- 2nd Best Programming Award
- 2nd Best Content Award
- Top 5 Best engineering (senior category)
- Top 5 Best research (senior category)
