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

Introduction of teams — Robotour first time in ,,foreign country'' This year Robotour is organized outside Czech Republic for the first time. This fact is noticeable a bit on origin of teams: there are 6 local (Slovak) teams, 12 Czech teams and 1 Italian team. If you are interested to see simultaneous start from one place of almost twenty fully autonomous robots, do not hesitate and come to Botanic garden in Bratislava. And in case of machines failure the beautiful surroundings will surely compensate it …

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…

Robotour 2010 — concurent start, navigation to destination Fifth year of this autonomous outdoor robot contest will be held on 18th September 2010. It will take place in Slovakia in one of the preselected parks in Bratislava. In contrast to previous years robots will get only map and coordinates of destination. Note, that robots will not know their exact starting position and interaction with operator will be reduced to entering destination. Robot successfully solving this task should be able to demonstrate its navigation in any park with corresponding map.

Results — LEE confirms the last year victory The winner of Robotour 2009 is for the second time the team LEE from Prague. The second place belongs to Roboauto from Brno (with two robots) and the third place fight out Radiklub Písek, competing with three robots. Congratulations! Especially 2nd and 3rd places were celebrated that night quite seriously …

Invitation to Brno — Robotour 2009, exhibition, lectures ... On 26th of September 2009 there will be ,,The Day of Robotics'' in Brno, park Lužánky (from 9:30am to 5:30pm). Besides 4th year of international contest of autonomous outdoor robots: „Robotour - robotika.cz outdoor delivery challenge”, you will see various exhibits and you could attend thematic lectures …

Robotour 2009 — start from unknown position The fourth year of this autonomous outdoor robot contest will be held in park Lužánky, Brno. Besides the new location the novelty is simultaneous start of all robots from unknown positions. More space will be also dedicated to „free style” category. From previous years remains obstacle avoidance, payload delivery and the possibility of robot cooperation. Each team can again deploy up to 3 machines.

Robotour 2008 — obstacles avoidance The third year of an autonomous outdoor robot contest will be held again in park Stromovka, Prague. In comparison to the previous years the robots should be more autonomous while traveling on the paved park roads (no manual intervention allowed this time) and while avoiding or at least detecting obstacles (this was previously not required). Extra points for carrying payload and cooperation of up to three robots in one team remain form previous years.