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FIRE FIGHTING ROBOT CONTEST TRINITY COLLEGE HARTFORD CONNECTICUT

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.

Symposium Schedule
Sponsored by: Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities
Location: Mather Campus Center, Washington Room (2nd Floor)
Admission: no charge

TimeSpeaker/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.

 

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.