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2008 CONTEST SCHEDULE
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Admission: no charge
| Time/Location |
Event/Details |
9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Oosting Gym |
Competition registration:
A $5 team deposit is required at check-in to ensure a clean
departure at the end of the contest. This deposit is paid
and refunded at the registration table. |
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Oosting Gym |
Robot Practice Session:
Pre-qualification rounds for all divisions (see Rules 15,
30, and 31) |
1:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Mather Campus Center,
Washington Room, 2nd Floor |
Robotics Symposium: See
complete Symposium Schedule below |
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Oosting Gym Foyer |
Poster Session: Each
team will be given 2 minutes to discuss their personalized
robot poster. One winner will be selected and awarded.
Participating teams must submit their posters at check-in.
Posters will be displayed for the duration of the contest.
(See Rule 36.) |
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Oosting Gym |
Olympiad Exam:
Registered teams and individuals complete in a 1-hour exam
to test their robotics knowledge. One winner will be
selected and awarded. |
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Oosting Gym Foyer |
Pizza Party: A
complimentary pizza party will be held for all registered
participants. |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Oosting Gym |
Robot Practice Session:
Pre-qualification rounds for all divisions resume. At 7:00
pm, registration to pre-qualify will end, only those in line
or registered will be permitted to complete the practice
/qualifying run. |
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Symposium Schedule
Sponsored by: Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities
Location: Mather Campus Center, Washington Room (2nd Floor)
Admission: no charge
| Time | Speaker/Affiliation |
| 1:10 pm |
Professor David Ahlgren, Trinity College
Welcoming Remarks |
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm |
Dr. Jenelle Peipmeier, U.S. Naval Academy
MEMS Robots
Microscopic robots too small to be seen with the human eye will have many applications. This talk will present the history of microrobot development, explain the pertinent technology, describe the current state-of-the-art in microrobots, and present future applications. The talk will also discuss the world's first microrobot contest,
the RoboCup Nanogram Competition.
Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier is an Associate Professor in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She received mechanical engineering degrees from LeTourneau University (B.S.,
Summa Cum Laude 1993) and Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S. 1995, Ph.D. 1999). Her research includes vision-based control of microelectronic devices and stereo vision applications for The Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships. She has been published in various journals, including IEEE
Transactions on Robotics and Automation, International Journal of Engineering Education, and IEEE
Transactions on Education. |
| 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm |
Dr. Francois Michaud, University of Sherbrooke
Interactive Robotics for Health Care and Assistive Technologies
Mobile robotics is one of the best examples of systems engineering, requiring the integration of a variety of components in a common structure, working in the real world. Only technologies and methodologies that work with the constraints of such integration can be useful, and so integration directly influences scientific considerations associated with the intelligent behavior of such systems. Over the last ten years, our research activities focused on designing interactive robots for health care and assistive technologies. In this presentation, we will present results and challenges in designing telepresence systems for remote care, interactive devices for child development and autism, and sophisticated service robots.
François Michaud holds the Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Mobile Robots and Intelligent Systems, and is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke. He is the Director of LABORIUS, a research laboratory on mobile robotics and intelligent systems working on mechatronics and developing AI methodologies for the design of intelligent autonomous systems that can assist humans in everyday uses. Michaud received his bachelor’s degree (1992), Master’s degree (1993) and Ph.D. degree (1996) in Electrical Engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke. |
| 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm |
Dr. Paul Oh, Drexel University
Indoor Aerial Robotics Competition
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated usefulness in tasks like search-and-rescue, exploration and mapping, weather monitoring and forest firefighting. More recently, UAVs are currently being designed to fly in near-Earth environments like forests, buildings, caves and tunnels. This talk will showcase designs and demonstrations of such UAVs at the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab in Philadelphia,
PA.
Prof. Paul Oh is the Associate Department Head at Drexel's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B.Eng. 1989), Seoul National (M.Sc 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999). Honors include faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), the NSF CAREER award (2004), the SAE Ralph Teetor Award for Engineering Education Excellence (2005) and being named a Boeing Welliver Fellow (2006). He is the Director of the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab and also chairs the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics. |
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sponsored by: Versa Valves
Admission: students (no charge), adults ($5.00)
| Time/Location |
Event/Details |
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Oosting Gym |
Robot Practice Session: Final practice for pre-qualified robots |
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Oosting Gym |
Maze Cleaning: No activity in Oosting Gym |
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Oosting Gym Foyer |
Robotics!: Robot fair presented by corporate affiliates and personalized robot posters will be on display |
11:00 am
Oosting Gym |
Opening Ceremony: Presented by: Honorable Chief Charles Teale, Hartford Fire Department |
11:15 am - 5:30 pm
Oosting Gym |
Robot Competition: Participants are encouraged to read and understand all the rules of the contest. The contest will continue until all robots have competed, approximately 5:30 pm. |
11:15 am - 5:30 pm
Oosting Gym |
Robot Hide & Seek:
Robots compete to find a doll that represents a frightened,
hiding child in a simulated house. (See Rule 46). |
Approx. 5:30 pm
Oosting Gym |
Award Ceremony: Presented by: Professor David Ahlgren, Trinity College |
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Oosting Gym |
Departure: All team tables must be cleared and left in clean condition. The $5 deposits and posters can be picked up at the registration table. |
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