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Nikita Mikhailovskiy

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Eurobot 2020/21

What’s the Euorobot?

Eurobot is an international robotics competition originated at 1998 in Paris, France for young proffesionals, students, amateurs (Open), and engaged teenagers, kids (Junior). This article will entirely be focused on the EurobotOpen contest.

The contest is based on contactless robot battles between two teams on an interactive playing field. Each team can make up to 2 robots of arbitrary designs whose summarized footprint is not exceeding 2050 mm in not deployed and 2200 mm in deployed states. Robots must be self-contained, capable of detecting and avoiding collisions, localizing themselves, and holding a plan or strategy to win the game against competitors’ robots.
The playing area has the necessary game attributes and actions available for each team to receive points. Robots must gain as many points as possible autonomously within 100 seconds, avoiding physical contact with competitors. After the end of the game, the jury scores both commands choosing the winner, where the lost team got eliminated from finals.

Each year the Eurobot competition have a new theme and rules that requires complete redesign of robots. And the theme of 27th Eurobot (2020) was named “Sail The World”.
Well, main actions for the robot were:

  • Create fairways to restore maritime traffic: collect and place cups (buoys) at the defined color fairways near ports (starting area:left or right sides, and rocks: center of a bottom side)
  • Lift up windsocks that have been swept away by the storm, located at bottom side, outside the playing field.
  • Switch on the lighthouse to navigate lost boats, where lighthouse are made by each team, and robots shoud physically turn them on.
  • Anchor robots at the end of game at predefined on the start north or south mooring zones.
  • Hoist robot’s flags after anchoring.
  • Estimate our performance by scoring robots ourselves, and collect additional points for a predicted result.

The simplified version of action scorings you may find here.

Meet the team

  • Stepan Perminov (group leader)

Contribution

Electronics

Simulation

Mentorship

Results

If you want to read more about our mechanics and high-level control solutions, there is an incomplete draft here. Disclaimer: This article is stale and has an enormous amount of mistakes.