6.270 Autonomous Robotic

Competition

IAP 2003

 

Results

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. (Paul Brown)

Qualifying round After building the robot in just couple of hours (we took it apart at 3:30 in the morning of the qualifying round) we won our qualifying battle! Yay! Our robot was not able to score the points though, we did not qualify. Not yet.

Real qualification On Wednesday, a day before, we qualified to enter the final round by scoring a point. Wow! The happiness seemed to have no end! The crowds cheered! :P

Final Contest: Round 1 Our robot started nicely but unfortunately turned too much and got a little stuck on a wall when climbing up to the top plateau. Even timeouts were not able to help :( Our opponents did not score either. Double loss. One more loss to go...

Final Contest: Round 3 We were placed against placebo which moreover disqualified itself. Seems an easy win, ha? The luck was not our side that day, though, our robot could not start. The reason? We would like to know that, too. :(

 

What we created

Why it happened

How it was supposed to happen

How we made it happen

What we got

If we were to do it again...