ROBOCON 2017

About the Competition

The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest, ABU_Robocon, is an Asian Oceanian College robot competition wherin robots compete to complete a task within a set period of time. The theme of the competition is different every year. For the year 2017 the theme was”Asobi: The landing disc”. The theme revolves around the word “asobi” (play), which is also a fundamental philosophy behind Robocon. A video explaining the theme more elaborately is here.
The theme of the competition is made available to the contestant teams at the start of September and the competition is held within the first week of March .

Task

The task at hand was to build a bot that could move along a straight line and also shoot disks at balls placed on seven poles spaced out in different locations in the arena. However after displacing the ball, the disk was supposed to land on the pole in order to earn a point in the game.

My Design

The bot was driven by a holonomic omni drive , with a hexagonal base consisting of 6 hollow aluminium pipes . The shooter consisted of a sector of circle through which the disk would be thrown out. The loading mechanism consisted of stepper motor attached with a pulley mechanism to propell the loaded disks into the shooter.

The robot design can be found here.