<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Not entirely related, but by the time of the next meeting my class will have just finished the UC Robocup – Search & Rescue competition. It's the major design project for the 2nd pro mechatronics class:</div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i>The “Canterbury RoboCup: Search and Rescue” competition requires students, working in teams of </i></span><i><br></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i>three, to design and build a telerobot capable of quickly locating and gathering objects within the field </i></span><i><br></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i>of play. No human intervention will be allowed once a telerobot begins operation. </i></span></blockquote><div>I should hopefully be able to bring along some video of our robots working if you're interested. The robots consist of a Qwerk mounted on a modified RC truck, controlled over Wi-Fi by software running on a remote PC. </div><div><br></div><div>Simon.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 14/09/2009, at 10:51 PM, Richard Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>A few folks have suggested that a Robotic challenge at each Chch Robotics<br>session would be a good thing.<br><br>Hayley suggested solving aspects related to Robocup rescue could build up<br>to a complete rescue robot. So for our next challenge I suggest a challenge<br>to build a robot to push all the cans off a Science Alive table without<br>falling off. The robot to complete the task in the fastest time wins.<br>Expect four or more empty, unweighted 330ml drink cans. A future task would<br>be to pick up the cans and drop them off the table.<br><br>We can put the table near the ground to prevent damage to errant robots.<br>Using a table rather than a genuine rescue mat makes it easier to test at<br>home.<br><br>The challenge will run from 6.30pm on 20th October at Science Alive.<br><br>Comments anyone? (I know Guy and Alex want to do drag race one day).<br><br>Richard<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chchrobotics mailing list <a href="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz">Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz</a><br><a href="http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics">http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics</a><br>web site: http://kiwibots.org<br>Meeting Dates:<br>Tue 20 October 2009 6.30pm<br>Tue 15 December2009 6.30pm<br>When replying, please edit your Subject line to reflect new content. <br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>