About ABU Robocon
- ABU-ROBOCON is an international robotics event organized by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
- Teams from over 25 countries from Asia participate in this Event.
- The competition is similar to Olympics where every year there is new host nation, which gives a new theme and we have to build robots based on the theme.
- Themes are based on the culture and tradition of the Host Nation. Robocon provides a platform for the countries to showcase their talent to the world through robotics.
- The national winning team represents its country in the Internationals
National DD Robocon Event
- For the selection of the best team from India, a National robocon Event is organised by Doordarshan, India hosted by IIT-Delhi.
- More than 110 colleges , including IITs, NITs participate in this competition.
- This Event is live Broadcasted on Television by DD Channel (Doordarshan Channel).
- Till 2018 the robocon event was organised at Balewadi stadium,Pune. From 2019 Competition takes place at IIT-Delhi.
3 Stages of Competition
❑Stage 1
ALL teams are supposed to send a detail technical documentation which includes the
justification for proposed robot designs. The documentation is evaluated out of 100 points.
Based on the score, selected teams advance to round 2.
❑Stage 2.
Here teams are evaluated on the basis of videos of actual working robots, performing different tasks as per the rulebook.
❑Stage 3.
Based on the score of Stage 1 and Stage 2, top 26 teams are selected for the final one-on-one competition at IIT-Delhi.
Robocon 2020 Highlights
Contest Theme “ROBO RUGBY 7s”
The ABU Robocon 2020 Suva contest is to play rugby 7’s game using two robots and five obstacles as five defending players. The highlight of this game is how the two robots collaborate to score Try and the Goal Kick. The main and unique challenge of this game will be Goal Kick, kicking the Kick Ball over the cross bar of the conversion post because of the unique shape of the rugby ball. The audience will be fascinated if the robot made all the Goals successfully.
Robocon 2019 Highlights
- Last year the competition was hosted by Mongolia and the theme was to build an autonomous four legged Robot and a Autonomous Guided Vehicle with a pick and place mechanism.
- Our team was shortlisted for final round and ranked in the top 10 teams from India beating reputed institutes
- We received a special award for the ‘MathWorks Modelling’ for effective use of Matlab and Simulink software.
- Our Four legged robot is the Only quadruped robot whose detailed blog is posted on the official Website of MathWorks Inc.
Nationals
IIT Delhi
Ranking
12th
Internationals
Mongolia
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Automated Guided Vehicle
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Autonomous Four Legged Robot
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