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A '''robotic competition''' is an event where [[robot]]s have to accomplish a given task. Usually they have to beat other robots in order to become the best one.
Most competitions are for schools but as time goes by, several professional competitions are arising.
There is a wide variety of competitions for [[robot]]s of various types. The following examples are describe a few of the higher profile events.
==RoboGames==
Recognized by the [[Guinness Book of World Records]] as the World's Largest Robot Competition. [[RoboGames]] - formerly ROBOlympics - hosts over 70 different events and is modeled on the human Olympics. Robot soccer, sumo, combat, android wrestling, maze solving, fire-fighting, biped races, balancer races, and exoskeletons are a few of the events held. Teams compete from around the world, and RoboGames has no prerequisites for contestants, it is open to anyone regardless of age or affiliation. It is also free for kids under 18 to compete.
==Aerial robotic vehicle competitions==
The AUVSI [[International Aerial Robotics Competition]] is the longest running aerial robotic event, held annually since 1991. This competition involves fully autonomous flying robots performing tasks that, at the time posed, are undemonstrated anywhere world wide. The competition is open to universities and has had missions involving ground object capture and transfer, hazardous waste location and identification, disaster scene search and rescue, and remote surveillance of building interiors by fully autonomous robots launched from 3km. In 2008 an $80,000 winner-take-all prize will be awarded.
A series of [[micro air vehicle]] (MAV) events have been sponsored by various organizations including the [[University of Florida]], the [[U.S. Army]], French [[Délégation Générale pour l'Armement|DGA]], Indian Ministry of Defense (http://www.nal.res.in/mav08/), and others over the past decade. Typically, these competitions involve capability demonstrations rather than missions, and may or may not involve full autonomy. Prizes range up to an aggregate value of $600,000 in 2008.
== Ground robotic vehicle competitions ==
The [[DARPA Grand Challenge]] is a competition for driverless cars to traverse, in the shortest time possible, a path of pre-defined start and finish points. The unclaimed 2004 prize for navigating through the Mojave Desert was $1,000,000. The farthest any participant got was only 7.4 miles. However, the 2005 prize of $2,000,000 was claimed by [[Stanford University]]. In this race, four vehicles successfully completed the race. This is a testament to how fast robotic vision and navigation are improving. The 2007 competition pits the vehicles against a mock-urban course with live traffic obstacles.
The [[Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition]] ([http://www.igvc.org/ IGVC]) is a competition for autonomous ground vehicles that must traverse outdoor obstacle courses without any human interaction. This international competition sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International ([http://www.auvsi.org/ AUVSI]), is a student design competition at the university level and has held annual competitions since 1992.
==Underwater robotic vehicle competitions==
The AUVSI and the U.S. Office of Naval Research have sponsored the International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm since 1997. This competition, as with the AUVSI Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition is a spin-off of the AUVSI [[International Aerial Robotics Competition]], and as such, carry through the theme of full autonomy of operation, albeit in a subsurface robotic vehicle. This too is a collegiate competition.
== BEST Robotics ==
BEST Robotics [http://www.Bestinc.org] includes two elements: a robot competition, in which teams attempt to score as many points as possible in head-to-head competition, and the BEST award. The BEST award is more complex, encompassing such tasks as writing a high-quality technical notebook or engineering journal, designing a website, an interview, delivering an oral presentation to a panel of judges, and creating a table display booth.
BEST is the second largest robotics competition in the U.S. with approximately 700 schools - over 10,000
students - participating.
BEST encourages its teams to follow an engineering process, similar to the engineering process used in many engineering jobs. This gives students a taste of what they may have to do in future engineering jobs. It also hopes to get students excited about the field of engineering and more likely to go into it. Although BEST has not been able to keep up with alumni to see if BEST has had an effect on their career path, similar robotics competitions, like FIRST, show that activities like BEST do have a higher rate of students going into science and engineering related fields.
Another challenge teams involved in BEST face is limited materials--the primary construction materials used in BEST are simple and easily formed. These materials include PVC pipe, string, plywood, a limited quantity of sheet metal, and a bit of aluminum, as well as miscellaneous hardware, 2 large motors and 2 small motors, and the electronics necessary to run these motors and the 3 provided servos. At the beginning of competition, the robot is checked over to make sure that no illegal parts are used. Originally, old printers were also part of the BEST kit and printer parts could be used on the machine. The limited materials make students think much more creatively with what they are given.
==International METU Robotics Days==
If you want to see the latest developments in robotics, learn how to make a simple robot, and compete your own robots with others, don't miss [[International METU Robotics Days]]! In order to participate in the competitions and join the workshop study, sign up now! 5th METU Robotics Days, the oldest and the most well-known robotics organization in Turkey, is international this year. First international, fifth robotics organization in Turkey will be held form '''21st to the 23rd of March''' in [[Middle East Technical University]] Culture & Convention Center, Ankara, Turkey.
In METU Robotics Days, there will be robot competitions from different categories which original and creative ideas take their part while innovation is honored. Participants are always encouraged to share their knowledge. International METU Robotics Days, apart from holding competitions for those who would like to challenge their skilled robots, also host the professionals and academicians interested in the field of robotics to come together in lectures and workshop studies with the younger amateurs, giving them the opportunity to take a closer to look at this continuously developing technology.
Robotics Days is an activity in which the first aim is to help people to have an idea about the robotics. We invite you if you are interested...
[http://www.roboticsdays.org Robotics Days Main Page]
[http://www.odturobotgunleri.org METU Robotics Days]
==IEEE Micromouse competition==
In [[Micromouse]] competitions, small robots try to solve a maze in the fastest time.
Micromouse competitions were held in Tampere Finland Technical University around 1983-1985.
Professor Yrjo Neuvo was a head of the competitions.
== FIRST competition ==
[[Dean Kamen]], Founder of [[FIRST]] ('''''F'''or '''I'''nspiration and '''R'''ecognition of '''S'''cience and '''T'''echnology''), created the world's leading high school robotics competition in 1992. FIRST provides a varsity-like competitive forum that inspires in young people, their schools and communities in an appreciation of science and technology.
Their [[:Category:Robotics competitions|robotics competition]] is a multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. Their outreach includes the original [[FIRST Robotics Competition]] (FRC) and the newer [[FIRST Vex Challenge]] (FVC or FTC) for ages 14-18, the [[FIRST Lego League]] (FLL) for ages 9-14, and [[Junior FIRST Lego League]] (JFLL) for ages 6-9. In 2007, there were over 130,000 students and 37,000 adult mentors from around the world involved in at least one of FIRST's competitions. FIRST encourages teams to find adults from outside of the school environment who can pass on their knowledge as mentors. There are thousands of scholarships available to students who participate.
The FLL robots are entirely [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomous]]; the FVC competition involves separate autonomous and driver control matches; and the FRC competition involves an initial autonomous period (10 or 15 seconds) followed by tele-operated driver control.
==RoboCup==
[[RoboCup]] is a competitive organization dedicated to developing a team of fully [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomous]] [[humanoid robots]] that can win against the human world [[soccer]] champion team by the year 2050. There are many different leagues ranging from [[computer simulation]], to full-size [[humanoid robots]].
[[RoboCup Junior]] is similar to RoboCup. RoboCup Junior is a competition for [[primary school|primary]] and [[secondary school]] aged students. RoboCup Junior includes three competitions:
* soccer - two robots per team play [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomously]] in a game of [[soccer]]
* rescue - an obstacle course in which a robot must follow a line to retrieve an object, and bring it back to safety as fast as possible
* dance - robots are designed to dance to music and are judged on criteria such as creativity and costumes
As is the case with [[RoboCup]], all robots are designed and developed solely by the students and act [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomously]] without any form of remote control or human intervention.
==Botball Educational Robotics==
[[Botball]] is a robotics competition for middle and high school students. Organized by the [http://www.kipr.org KISS Institute for Practical Robotics], Botball encourages participants to work constructively within their team building basic communication, problem solving, design, and programming skills. Each team builds one or more (up to four) robots that will autonomously move scoring objects into scoring positions.
==Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory competition==
The [[Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory]] (http://maslab.csail.mit.edu) is one of the few college-level vision-based autonomous robotics competition in the world. Conducted by and for MIT undergraduates, this competition requires multithreaded applications of image processing, robotic movements, and target ball deposition. The robots are run with Debian Linux and run on an independent OrcBoard platform that facilitates sensor-hardware additions and recognition.
==Annual fire-fighting home robot contest==
[[Trinity College (Connecticut)]] also has an annual firefighting robot contest (http://www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/) which is participated by high schools and colleges from around the world including from countries like Israel and China. This is the largest, public robotics competition held in the U.S. that is open to entrants of any age, ability or experience from anywhere in the world[http://cs.wellesley.edu/~rds/rds01/resources.html#competitions/]. The 14th Annual Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest was held on the Trinity campus in Hartford, Connecticut on April 14-15 in 2007. One new event in the concept division was added to the 2007 competition, which is the baby-finding contest. Participants will have to find both the flame and the simulated baby, extinguish the former and announce (or bring it to people's attention somehow) when it finds the latter in the expert division. In the concept division, simply finding the baby and notifying the people is sufficient. Check the event website for contest details.
==Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition (DARC)==
Hosted by [[Duke University]], the [[Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition (DARC)]] challenges students to create innovative wall-climbing [[robot]]s that can ascend vertical surfaces. The competition, which will be held on Duke's campus in [[Durham, North Carolina]], will allow students to showcase their wall-climbing technology in an international forum and encourage students to network with industry leaders.
[http://robotics.pratt.duke.edu/roboclimb DARC's Website]
== AAAI Grand Challenges ==
The two [[AAAI]] Grand Challenges focus on [[Human Robot Interaction]], with one being a robot attending and delivering a conference talk, the other being operator-interaction challenges in rescue robotics.
== Centennial Challenges ==
The [[Centennial Challenges]] are [[NASA]] prize contests for non-government funded technological achievements, including robotics, by US citizens.
== Robofest ==
Robofest [http://robofest.ltu.edu robofest.ltu.edu] or [http://www.robofest.net www.robofest.net] is an annual robotics competition originated at Lawrence Technological University [http://www.ltu.edu www.ltu.edu] by Dr. CJ Chung in 2000 for students in grades 5 to 12. Robofest challenges student teams, to design, build, and program fully autonomous robots.
Especially Robofest features innovative & interesting challenges to motivate students to master math and science while doing something they enjoy. The fun competition categories in Junior and Senior age divisions in Robofest are Games, Creative Exhibitions, Pentathlon, Sumo, and Fashion Shows.
== Collegiate Robofest ==
Robofest for college students. Advanced high school students may participate in. The current competition category is the "Mini Urban Challenge" using PC-based robot with a camera called L2Bot.
== International Robot Olympiad ==
Robot game for children ages 9 - 17. Split essentially to the standard category (building robot from scratch and solve a problem within 2-3 hours) and the creative category (project based, bring your design, reports, and research and show it - exhibition style). The committee are experts from various universities around the world, with the purpose of promoting innovation and education. [http://www.iroc.org]
== Rat's Life robot programming contest ==
This contest is organized to promote research results and stimulate further interest in bio-inspired robotics control. The participation to the contest is open to anyone and free of charge. Contestants can download a free version of the [[Webots]] software for simulating a robotic scenario where two rat robots compete for survival in a maze-like environment. The developed robot controllers can be transferred in real [[e-puck]] robots roaming an interactive [[LEGO]] maze. [http://www.ratslife.org]
==ABU RoboCon==
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An annual robot contest which started in 2002 for university, college and polytechnic students in the Asia-Pacific region. Under a common set of rules, participants compete with their peers from other countries with hand-made robots. This contest aims to create friendship among young people with similar interests, as well as help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region. The event broadcasts in countries/region through ABU member broadcasters.
The contest is hosted by a different broadcaster/country every year.
== OFF Road Robotics Competition ==
The competition is organized by a Robot Accossiation of Finland [http://robotti.wikidot.com/robotcontest].
The main target is to build a robot which is able to move without human help off road. The master competition is held yearly at Jämi Fly In- air show Jämi Air Field, Finland [http://www.jamiflyin.com/uk/introduction.html]. This is normally the weekend in mid of July. This year the competition is held 12.7. 2008 12:00-14:00. Everyone is welcome to try.
The competition track is randomly selected 10 minutes before competition by the judge, marked with four wooden stick to make a 200 meter track. The track consist of sand road, fied of bushes and rocks. It not easy, but it is same for everyone.
The robots must run a outside the sticks from start to finish without human interface as fast as possible. Youtube movies from last competition can be shown [http://robotti.wikidot.com/off-road-2007] and pictures [http://www.propelli.net/robot/offroad2007.html]
The smaller inside robot competition are held at winter time.
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