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2003
Morris County Robotics Challenge |
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Students from Grades 5 to 8 |
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2nd annual robotic competition event was held on Thursday, May 8, 2003 at
3:45PM to 6:10PM at Morris Hills Regional High School. |
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| Congratulations
to all of the teams that competed and especially to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
with a perfect score of 396 points! |
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An autonomous robot pulling 20 pounds...
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This robot is pulling approximately 32x it's weight... next year we'll try
to match the power of an ant... at 50x |
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| Coverage
in Star Ledger, Friday, May 9, 2003 |
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas Alva Edison |
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2003 Competition
Manual (.html)
(.doc) (.pdf)
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| 2003
Rule Summary - One Page Format (.html)
(.doc)
(.pdf) |
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2003 Course
(.gif) (.vsd)
(.dwg) "E" Size 36"x48"
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Scorer's
sheet (.doc)
(.pdf)
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Event
scoring sheet (.xls) final
scores from May 8, 2003 <.xls>
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A
few more photos from last year's event : 1) team/scoring
sign, 2) before
the event, 3) teams
starting to arrive, 4) pulling
9 pounds, 5) robot trailer disintegrating
under load just after making a full 9 pound pull, 6) following
the line, 7) robot
closeup
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Note: It looks like these "pint size" hand-held robots can pull
weight in excess of 20-30+ pounds! |
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Concepts
developed.... (maximum creativity, minimal rules, highest safety)
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 Following
the line |
Pulling |
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Battlebots |
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Useful
work |
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Obstacle
Avoidance |
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Teaming |
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Self
configuring |
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Autonomous
Operation |
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| RIS/RCX
1.0, 1.5,
2.0/2.0 |
RoboLab
1.0, 1.5, 2.0,
2.5
S/W Update |
Parts |
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| Lego
Mindstorm |
WorkShop
3D Lego RCX Challenge |
Lego
Battlebots? |
Edventures
Online |
| Lego
Mindstorm webring |
PITSCO
Lego dacta |
more
Lego Battlebots |
Lego,
Softwire and .NET |
| NI,
Lego & Tufts = RoboLab |
RoboLab,
eLAB |
Lego
and Basic Stamp |
TCP/IP
enabled Lego brick |
| Tufts
Univ. K-12 Outreach and RoboLab |
National
Instruments, sensors,
LabView |
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| Brown
University CS148 Building Intelligent Robots |
NASA
Robotics Education Program |
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| Related
links: |
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Lego's
and relationship to MEMS and Nanotechnology? |
| First |
First
Lego League |
Sandia
Labs |
Darpa
Distributed Robotics |
| Somerset
County Lego |
Lego
Red Rover |
Sandia
TechOutreach |
Nanotechnology
News |
| Somerset
Lego (RealMedia file) |
LegoLab
(Soccer, more) |
SmartDust |
Nanotechnology |
| Lego
Mindstorm Internals |
Netsurfer
Robotics |
Fractal
Robots |
MEMS
Clearinghouse |
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| Connections...
bringing this all together...? |
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Lego's
and relationship to MECCANO (i.e. erector sets)? |
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MECCANO
vs. Lego |
MECCANO
webring |
| The
Construction Site |
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Brio
brings back the Erector set |
Model
library |
| LugNet |
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| Last
Update: 05/12/03 ehb |
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