Photo report from competitions in robotics in Murmansk
Last Saturday, an interesting event took place in the Murmansk Polytechnic Lyceum - the real “Battle of Robots”. About a similar event in St. Petersburg they wrote on Habré , but the broadcast ended, so I decided to publish a photo report from a similar event.
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This time, the regulations did not provide for real battles, that is, fighting robots. This tournament was more sporty, especially since it was a qualifier for international competitions.
Briefly about the robots themselves. Robots are made from Lego Mindstorms, a children's designer, but this is not a toy Lego that many people know about from childhood. This series is a truly powerful tool for creativity and serious research. The designer serves only as a building material, and a set of sensors, electric motors, gears, shafts, pulleys, a battery and a control unit are attached to it. Everything fits in a huge box.
A laptop is required here, because the behavior of the robot is programmed. As part of the competition, it is not a radio-controlled toy, but an autonomous machine, which itself acts in accordance with the algorithm of behavior laid down. What, in fact, is the whole interest. It is worth recalling that everything is done by children, starting from 10 years!
According to the regulations at the start of the competition everything should be disassembled. About three hours is given to assemble a robot of our own design and write a program of behavior for it.
Then it is possible and necessary to test it in free mode in order to identify all the glitches and force them to carry out tasks.
The most massive task, it’s the simplest one, is called Kegelring. The task of the robot is very simple - you need, old from the center, knock out all the pins from the circle and do it as quickly as possible. Let me remind you that it is impossible to touch and control the robot in the process of an attempt.
The girls are also addicted to robotics and even here they give interviews to a local TV channel.
For programming, you can use a simple visual editor, in which the algorithm is presented in the form of custom blocks.
There are strict requirements for robots - in terms of configuration, in terms of parts used and in size. The construction time expires timer rings and all robots are sent to “quarantine” to be checked by the judges. Each robot is carefully examined, carefully checked to fit into the frame 20 by 20 cm, according to the rules.
Now nothing in them can be changed or adjusted until the end of the first attempt.
The design of the robot is consistent with the chosen tactics of behavior. This robot, similar to the “Belarus” tractor, has a slanting blade, because it follows an algorithm from the center of the circle in a spinning spiral and pushes pins.
This, in my opinion, looks like a combine. With a large straight blade, he pushes the banks one by one.
Clearly visible organs of the senses. Orange "eyes" are ultrasonic distance sensors. Down is looking at the light sensor, which “catches” the black border of the ring and stops the robot. If this does not happen, then the robot as a suicide falls from the table.
The ring is ready. The first attempt has begun! The judge notes the time, after winning the fastest.
The first attempt went with varying success - all the pins pushed out just one robot. The Kegelring robots are back in quarantine in anticipation of improvements and a second attempt, and at the next table the robots begin to perform with more serious tasks, in which refereeing follows international rules.
Task "Van Gogh." The robot should take 4 color cubes in 2 minutes and put them on 4 poles of the corresponding color. The cubes are arranged randomly and the robot must determine the color of each cube and carry it to the corresponding pole.
Task "Mendeleev." The robot must come out from the start, drive through the bridge (+20 points), overcome the slide (+20 points), take the red or blue cylinder (white cannot be taken - fine) and take it to the blue and red fields, respectively. So you need to transfer all 4 randomly located cylinders in 2 minutes.
The third task for the younger age group. On the field, randomly located blue and red cells. The robot should, moving across the field, throw out 1 ball on a blue field, 2 on a red field, 2 on a white field. And reach the finish line in 2 minutes.
The latest improvements and the battle. Or rather, in the "quarantine" and to verify compliance with technical regulations.
Next come the speeches of the robot. The robot is trying to put the cube on the color, slightly misses.
The hunt for the cylinders is also not very successful - the robots fall from the bridge, and if they get to the cylinders, they are “blunt” with colors or they cannot grasp it mechanically normally.
At the start there are robots, which must correctly scatter the balls on the colored fields.
In a break between attempts, two girls present a robot student who is able to recognize numbers on cards, solve examples, speak out loud the answer and even express emotions on the “face” depending on the results.
Next comes a break and lunch in the school cafeteria. Upon return, the organizers give a countdown for the completion of robots before the second attempt. Time is worth its weight in gold, so after 15 seconds the quarantine is empty.
These guys are not using the visual editor, but the Bricx development environment. The syntax of the language is a hike to the C language, so everything is grown-up.
They say it’s more convenient - it compiles faster and makes changes to parameters easier.
And here are the prizes that are waiting for their owners.
Recent opportunities to fix something.
Again, quarantine, verification of technical regulations, the draw of fields - all to be honest. And so, the robots again at a distance.
In Kögelring, the competition is much tougher, because there passions are simply written on faces.
The voltage reaches a maximum, so that even one bank hangs on the edge (!!!) right on the line of the circle, creating a difficult judicial situation. Since it does not concern the internal space of the field, it is considered read.
The second attempt is over! The judges are removed to count the points.
Well, then comes the awards ceremony. It is very pleasant to look at the clever and cheerful children's faces, continuous positive!
Outside of competition, I was shown how robots are controlled using an app on a smartphone via Bluetooth. Also, robots can exchange information with each other.
In general, the event turned out to be very rich and interesting. It is very positive and fun and pleasant that children are passionately engaged in such a right thing. And it is doubly pleasant that this is not only in the capitals, but also in provincial Murmansk.
Thanks MPL for the event and the invitation, and Habralyud - for attention!
update: There is no video of his own yet, but there are plots of local TV stations where robots are visible.
Time: on Youtube
Two: on Youtube
update2: Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r1F-hBffU
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This time, the regulations did not provide for real battles, that is, fighting robots. This tournament was more sporty, especially since it was a qualifier for international competitions.
Briefly about the robots themselves. Robots are made from Lego Mindstorms, a children's designer, but this is not a toy Lego that many people know about from childhood. This series is a truly powerful tool for creativity and serious research. The designer serves only as a building material, and a set of sensors, electric motors, gears, shafts, pulleys, a battery and a control unit are attached to it. Everything fits in a huge box.
A laptop is required here, because the behavior of the robot is programmed. As part of the competition, it is not a radio-controlled toy, but an autonomous machine, which itself acts in accordance with the algorithm of behavior laid down. What, in fact, is the whole interest. It is worth recalling that everything is done by children, starting from 10 years!
According to the regulations at the start of the competition everything should be disassembled. About three hours is given to assemble a robot of our own design and write a program of behavior for it.
Then it is possible and necessary to test it in free mode in order to identify all the glitches and force them to carry out tasks.
The most massive task, it’s the simplest one, is called Kegelring. The task of the robot is very simple - you need, old from the center, knock out all the pins from the circle and do it as quickly as possible. Let me remind you that it is impossible to touch and control the robot in the process of an attempt.
The girls are also addicted to robotics and even here they give interviews to a local TV channel.
For programming, you can use a simple visual editor, in which the algorithm is presented in the form of custom blocks.
There are strict requirements for robots - in terms of configuration, in terms of parts used and in size. The construction time expires timer rings and all robots are sent to “quarantine” to be checked by the judges. Each robot is carefully examined, carefully checked to fit into the frame 20 by 20 cm, according to the rules.
Now nothing in them can be changed or adjusted until the end of the first attempt.
The design of the robot is consistent with the chosen tactics of behavior. This robot, similar to the “Belarus” tractor, has a slanting blade, because it follows an algorithm from the center of the circle in a spinning spiral and pushes pins.
This, in my opinion, looks like a combine. With a large straight blade, he pushes the banks one by one.
Clearly visible organs of the senses. Orange "eyes" are ultrasonic distance sensors. Down is looking at the light sensor, which “catches” the black border of the ring and stops the robot. If this does not happen, then the robot as a suicide falls from the table.
The ring is ready. The first attempt has begun! The judge notes the time, after winning the fastest.
The first attempt went with varying success - all the pins pushed out just one robot. The Kegelring robots are back in quarantine in anticipation of improvements and a second attempt, and at the next table the robots begin to perform with more serious tasks, in which refereeing follows international rules.
Task "Van Gogh." The robot should take 4 color cubes in 2 minutes and put them on 4 poles of the corresponding color. The cubes are arranged randomly and the robot must determine the color of each cube and carry it to the corresponding pole.
Task "Mendeleev." The robot must come out from the start, drive through the bridge (+20 points), overcome the slide (+20 points), take the red or blue cylinder (white cannot be taken - fine) and take it to the blue and red fields, respectively. So you need to transfer all 4 randomly located cylinders in 2 minutes.
The third task for the younger age group. On the field, randomly located blue and red cells. The robot should, moving across the field, throw out 1 ball on a blue field, 2 on a red field, 2 on a white field. And reach the finish line in 2 minutes.
The latest improvements and the battle. Or rather, in the "quarantine" and to verify compliance with technical regulations.
Next come the speeches of the robot. The robot is trying to put the cube on the color, slightly misses.
The hunt for the cylinders is also not very successful - the robots fall from the bridge, and if they get to the cylinders, they are “blunt” with colors or they cannot grasp it mechanically normally.
At the start there are robots, which must correctly scatter the balls on the colored fields.
In a break between attempts, two girls present a robot student who is able to recognize numbers on cards, solve examples, speak out loud the answer and even express emotions on the “face” depending on the results.
Next comes a break and lunch in the school cafeteria. Upon return, the organizers give a countdown for the completion of robots before the second attempt. Time is worth its weight in gold, so after 15 seconds the quarantine is empty.
These guys are not using the visual editor, but the Bricx development environment. The syntax of the language is a hike to the C language, so everything is grown-up.
They say it’s more convenient - it compiles faster and makes changes to parameters easier.
And here are the prizes that are waiting for their owners.
Recent opportunities to fix something.
Again, quarantine, verification of technical regulations, the draw of fields - all to be honest. And so, the robots again at a distance.
In Kögelring, the competition is much tougher, because there passions are simply written on faces.
The voltage reaches a maximum, so that even one bank hangs on the edge (!!!) right on the line of the circle, creating a difficult judicial situation. Since it does not concern the internal space of the field, it is considered read.
The second attempt is over! The judges are removed to count the points.
Well, then comes the awards ceremony. It is very pleasant to look at the clever and cheerful children's faces, continuous positive!
Outside of competition, I was shown how robots are controlled using an app on a smartphone via Bluetooth. Also, robots can exchange information with each other.
In general, the event turned out to be very rich and interesting. It is very positive and fun and pleasant that children are passionately engaged in such a right thing. And it is doubly pleasant that this is not only in the capitals, but also in provincial Murmansk.
Thanks MPL for the event and the invitation, and Habralyud - for attention!
update: There is no video of his own yet, but there are plots of local TV stations where robots are visible.
Time: on Youtube
Two: on Youtube
update2: Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r1F-hBffU
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/140282/
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