robotika.cz
the homepage of Czech roboteers

Our goal is to develop comprehensive site about robotics for the widest audience. It should cover both hardware (construction of physical devices) and software (control and algorithms).

There are several top level sections. In section articles you can find stories about hard gained experience and interesting topics from the world of robotics. If you are interested rather in complete robots (mostly Czech origin) then have a look at robots section. Various kinds of competitions are perfect motivation for our work. It is also the best way to start with robotics. The competitions section is currently the largest section of our site. In addition to rules, it contains notes about preparation and participation of both contestants and visitors. Recently we have started new section guide in the hopes of creating the ABC of mobile robotics (sorry, it is so far mostly in Czech).

If you have built a robot, have a product we could use, or have some interesting experiences with robots that you would want to share do not hesitate to contact us. We are always looking for new and/or interesting products for our new projects. Our mission statement is to unite as many roboteers as possible in a community based on helpfulness, knowledge sharing and mutual support.

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Featured Content

Robotour 2012 — video pre-homologace The seventh year of contest of autonomous robots will take place in Czech Republic on 15th of September 2012. The rules remain the same as previous year in Vienna: robots will get the goal position and a map. All robots will start concurrently. Also the payload (a five liter barrel of beer) is mandatory as previous year.

Robotour 2011 results — Czech and Slovak meeting of roboteers in Vienna There were fifteen registered teams for Robotour 2011 contest from five countries, but only eight of them arrived and were able to pass the homologation test. Smelý Zajko represented Slovak Republic and the other ones were „troupers” from Czech Republic. The contest went well besides this high mortality ratio and the show was positively received by wide spectrum of Vienna public: from small children to old people on a walk in a beautiful Türkenschanzpark.

Introduction of Teams — international Robotour, teams from five countries When we decided that the next country hosting the Robotour contest will be Austria, we were a little bit afraid. There was no Austrian team in Bratislava last year. But now it looks more promising — not only there are two new teams from Austria, there is also one new team from Poland and one from Slovenia.

Robotem rovně 2010 — An outdoor competition of autonomous robots in Písek The second year of "robotem rovně" (freely translated as go straightforward with robots) took part on May 22nd 2010 in Palackého sady, Písek. The event is organized by Radioklub Písek, aiming to increase robotics awareness in general public and to attract youth to technology. Entrants compete in two categories: robots and cars (robots without any sensors). The goal is to get as far as you can on a straight path, but it’s not nearly as easy to do, as it appears to be.

Robotour 2011 — mandatory payload Sixth year of this autonomous outdoor robot contest will be held on 17th September 2011. It will take place in Austria in one of the preselected parks (Türkenschanzpark) in Vienna. Similarly to last year robots will get only map and coordinates of destination. The start will be again concurrent for all robots. For the first time the payload (five liter barrel) will be mandatory.

Field Robot 2010 — maize silver travels to Czech Republic This year cooperation with Czech University of Life Sciences Prague was surely worth it. Overall second place for Eduro Team and four maize „cups” shared together with another Czech team Cogito MART are hopefully self-explaining . What hardware, software and strategy we used this year, you can learn from this article …

PocketBot — a matchbox-sized line following robot PocketBot project consists of three parts. The key part of the project is the robot itself – a tiny line following vehicle of a matchbox size. Furthermore, the robot is supported with an USB communication device and with a PC control application. Altogether, these three parts form a complex solution to the line following issue. Each part of the project will be described in this article.

Brimstone — my first steps in the world of robotics I took park in the national finals of Science Expo AMAVET, where I reached the fifth rank and therefore I could participate on the international exhibition in Tunis. Moreover, I won the High school science and technology project contest in branch of electronics. On these pages, I would like to introduce my robot…