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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 18/4:
Cogito 903m)
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Robotour 2018 — QR-codes
The 13th year of Robotour contest for autonomous outdoor robots will take
place in Lednice/Czech Republic. There will be several changes
in the rules this year: the automatic loading and unloading will be no longer
for extra points, QR-codes will be introduced to specify next location and
robot can request preliminary task termination to avoid penalty for leaving the
road. The autonomous, service and semi-autonomous zones remain the same as last
year. When and where? Lednice, 15th September 2018.
(Update 22/3/2018 - QR code format change)
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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: 6/12 — Spider3 finally autonomously moved!
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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
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Robotour 2017 - Workshop — team presentations + PAIR'17 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. This year we were recording so
although it is not the top quality you can see and hear what was presented.
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Results — Cogito team is the winner of Robotour 2017!
Twelfth year of Robotour contest introduced new „delivery” rules, which we
had to tweak a little bit on the way to Žilina and also during the competition.
After that the satisfaction was both on the side of teams as well as
organizers. And who managed the latest task the best? The team which tested
the most … Czech/Swiss team Cogito! (Update 20/9:
added new links and videos)
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Introduction of teams — BII, MRVT, Robosoft, Legendary Rover, Mota Seto ...
There are 15 registered teams for Robotour 2017 which will take place in
Slovakia (Žilina) on 16th of September 2017. The list is an interesting
mixture of old, new and „renovated” teams, for which was the far contest
location the last blocking point. We can again look forward to see participants
from Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
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SICK Robot Day 2016 — the die is cast
Another „SICK Robot Day” is over. This time two robots had to place cubes in
the field loaded with RFID chips in 5x5 meter bit „chess” area. Once the
cubes were placed then they become obstacle and future collisions were
penalized. So how it went?
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Results — winner of ultra-wet Robotour is Istrobotics!
The 11th year of Robotour contest was the wettest. It rained permanently all
day. This was not only challenge for the sensors and electronics, but also for
the teams themselves. Never the less there were 12 robots on the start
accepting the challenge in heavy rain (and wind too). Istrobotics with more
than 600 points was the clear winner …
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Introduction of teams — Raptors, Quadrons, WallE, ...
There are 14 teams registered for Robotour 2016 in Deggendorf Germany. That is
nice start of the second contest decade . Also note, that Robotour is no
longer Czech domain — there are 5 teams from Germany, only 4 teams from
Czech republic, 2 from Poland, 2 from Slovakia and 1 from Switzerland. In
particular I am pleased that there are 5 new teams and even old teams upgraded
their robots, sensors, software …
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Robotour 2016 — automatic loading and unloading
The 11th year of Robotour contest of autonomous outdoor robots will take place
in Germany — the last unvisited neighbour of the origin country. New are
extra bonus points for automatic payload loading at start position and
unloading at goal position. Moreover some contestants could be excited about
lower payload requirements when automatic loading is used. Note, that this is
an optional feature and thus robots from previous years can be used without any
modification. The contest will take place on 17th September 2016 in
Deggendorf as part of „Czech-Bavarian week”.
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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
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