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The DARPA Subterranean Challenge is headed to Pittsburgh for the Tunnel Circuit, the first scored Challenge Event, in August from the 15th-22nd. Qualified teams will attempt to navigate a former operational mine in Pittsburgh, PA. … Update: 20/8/2019 — Safety First, right? (Game 3)

Freyja — four-wheels for SubT Challenge

Freyja is four-wheels differentially driven robot, which turns with skidding. It is work of Swiss Cogito Team, which is one of the „organisations” involved in SubT Challenge Tunnel Circuit. Freyja was growing up for 3 months from nothing and in one person it is almost unbelievable, that it can be done … so it would be pity not to document it!

Robotour Marathon 2019 — testing challenge II.

Robotour Marathon is a new discipline helping teams to prepare to hard Robotour contest held typically in September. The first marathon confirmed that the best 3 teams already participated and tested their robots in complex environments. Note, that there is a new monthly scoring scheme for year 2019. (Update 13/8: JECC Lois 983m)

Kloubák — flexibilní 4WD polní robot

Je na čase začít dokumentovat úvodní krůčky mobilního robota „Kloubák”, který vzniká na zemědělce (ČZU/TF). Přestože myšlenka kloubového podvozku je již poměrně stará, teprve Jakub a spol. projekt uvedl do pohybu. A jsem za to moc rád. Blog update: 25/7 — Kloubák 1 + 2

RoboOrienteering 2019 — Mariánské Lázně, jubilejní desátý ročník

Letos se jubilejního desátého ročníku zúčastnilo deset týmů, což naposledy bylo prý v roce 2011. Pro mne osobně to bylo v Mariánkách poprvé. Soutěž samotná byla naším interním SubT Robotika Team STIX milníkem aneb integrační test robotů připravujících se na SubT Challenge (Robík, Kloubák, Eduro, MOBoS a Max). Jinak soutěž byla i letos mezinárodní: dva německé týmy a jeden slovenský.

MOBoS — MOB na steroidech

Tak tělo nového MOBoSe je na světě. Tady je foto příběh… Update: 2/6/2019 — MOBoS a ROS

SubT STIX in Ten Weeks — Robotika.cz Team

DAPRA organizes training rounds called STIX (SubT Integration Exercise), where the first one is in April 2019 in Colorado. Although the STIX is for System Track only we plan to work simultaneously also on Virtual Track. This is English blog for the next three months … Update: 20/5/2019 — CERBEROS and CRAS videos from Colorado

Robotour 2019 — in memory of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerald Kupris

The 14th year of Robotour contest for autonomous outdoor robots will take place in parks in Deggendorf/Germany. This year will be dedicated to professor Gerald Kupris who left us for ever at the end of January 2019. Gerald was the main robotics support at Technishe Hochschule Deggendorf and also a Robotour organizer. When and where will the contest take place? Deggendorf, 14th September 2019.

Předehra — Robík, Eduro, ROS a OSGAR

Je čas dělat „podzemní robotiku”, minimálně DARPA (americká armáda) si to myslí. První cena v nové SubT Challange jsou 2 milióny USD a již se neomezuje pouze na američany. Vedle Systems kategorie, kde se očekává netriviální kombinace mnoha mapovacích robotů zvládající náročné podmínky v podzemí, je k dispozici i Virtual kategorie, online v simulátoru Gazebo 11. Update: 18/1/2019 — STIX Qualification

OSGAR — Open Source Garden Autonomous Robot

OSGAR is a long term project which will probably incorporate more than one robotic platform in the future. The project started in 2014 when we decided to modify school garden tractor John Deere X300R into autonomous robot. The project is carried on in cooperation with the Czech University of Life Science Prague. Blog update: 21/10 — OSGAR v0.0.1 released!

SICK Robot Day 2018 — první robotická loupež

Letos na podzim se koná další ročník soutěže „SICK Robot Day”. Hrací plocha je opět tělocvična (cca 13 x 7 metrů), kde proti sobě nastoupí dva soutěžní roboti + jeden organizátorský! Ten bude jezdit po kruhové dráze s nákladem železných koulí a úkolem soutěžních robotů je „uloupit co se dá” a dopravit lup do vlastního doupěte. Blog update: 18/10 — Eduro video

Robotour 2018 - Workshop — team presentations + PAIR'18 conference

On Sunday there is always a workshop of all teams after the contest. They share their findings what worked and what did not, what is in reality inside of their smart robots, how they liked the new rules etc. Here you can find PDF presentations of most of the teams.

Results — JECC Fesl is the winner of Robotour 2018!

The 13th year of Robotour contest took place in a beautiful garden of castle Lednice. We could witness many unexpected twists in robot behaviors, but also many great achievements of some well prepared teams. Deservedly won team JECC Fesl from Germany, both the Marathon (over 4km last weekend) and the Robotour 2018. (Update 22/9/2018 ARBot video)

Robotour Marathon 2017/18 — testing challenge

Robotour Marathon is a new discipline starting in season 2017/18. There are several motivations for this new challenge, where probably the first one is to improve level of testing = level of robot realiability in Robotour contest. Moreover it provides comparison of different teams around the whole world over the year. (Update 10/9: JECC Fesl 4182m)

Marina — projekt Roboloď

Projekt „Roboloď” pro mne začal na vánočním večírku 2015, tj. skoro před třemi lety. Bývalý kolega z práce říkal, že jeho kamarád shání někoho, kdo by dokázal zrobotizovat lodičku zavážející krmení do sádek na rybníce. Projekt byl (a stále je) takový „tajuplný”, ale nakonec jsme se se dvěma dalšími kamarády rozhodli do toho jít. Když nic, tak ověříme, jak se nám spolupracuje a na vodě jsme s robotama ještě nebyli … Blog update: 8/9 — Vodní test 3

Introduction of teams — jackal and the veterans

There are 13 registered teams (3 of them have incomplete registration at the moment) for Robotour 2018 which will take place in Czech Republic (castle garden Lednice) on 15th of September 2018. The teams are mostly veterans except The JK-Team from Technical University Deggendorf, which will come with their commercial platform Jackal from Clearpath Robotics. We can again look forward to see participants from Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland.

PuluTOF1 DevKit — the first tests and adaptation to ROS

Pulurobotics from Finland decided to offer a new product: PuluTOF for Raspi with controller hat and four sensors. It is already working inside their robot Pulu M. The price for PuluTOF will be around the same as low-end LIDAR, less than 500 EUR with four sensors, but it gives you at 5Hz 3D point cloud instead of a single plane. Blog update: 9/8 ROS installed

Robotem rovně 2018 — 10. ročník soutěže

V sobotu 12. května proběhl desátý jubilejní ročník závodů autíček a robůtků v Píseckém parku nazvaný Robotem Rovně aneb Autíčka V Parku. Soutěž se koná za každého počasí na krásném místě ve středu města Písek na trase 314m dlouhé. Cílem opravdu není nic jiného než ujet 314metrů rovně bez zásahu jakékoliv obsluhy.

Move Your Robot 2017 — 3rd year of Naio challenge

MYR2017 is outdoor contest for autonomous robots organized by French company Naio Technologies. The participants have to first demonstrate that they are able to control Naio robot in Simulatoz (yes, Z is correct) provided by the company. Then only the best teams can run their code on the real robot. The first prize is 1000 EUR in each category (simulation, real navigation and free style). Blog update: 1/12 — Summary

Tour the Stairs 2015 — up and down

The second year of the contest „Tour the Stairs” will take place on Saturday 28th November 2015. The robots could climb the stairs up and down this year to make it more interesting for last year participants. The location is the same: NTK Galery in Prague, Dejvice. UPDATE: 7/1 — minivideo