Agnel Robotics Club

Know About

robocon

ROBOCON is organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Unit (ABU). It was established in 2002 and is presently the largest robotics competition in the world. It has gained the status of biggest robotics competition with 1500+ teams participating worldwide. Each year the organisation comes up with a new problem statement. The variation and the standard of problem statement gives participants ample opportunity to learn and implement various technical skills and also brush up their managerial capabilities. The team winning the national leg of the competition represents the country in the international stage. The international level of the competition is on August 23, 2020 in Suva, Fiji. The national leg of the competition is happening in two stages with the finals of the Doordarshan(DD) Robocon on June 14, 2020 at IIT Delhi.

This year's

Theme

The competition was held in Ninh Binh, Vietnam. The theme comes from a traditional game in ethnic region of Vietnam, namely ném còn (throwing shuttlecock). The goal of the game is to throw the shuttlecocks through the ring at height. In Vietnamese culture, the game is about celebration and making friendship. In the game, each team is given a few shuttlecocks and needs to design two robots, one manual and one automatic robot. The manual robot needs to hand the shuttlecocks to the automatic robot, which attempts to throw the shuttlecocks through the rings (unlike the traditional game, there are three rings at various heights in this game). The winner can be achieved by points, or by immediate KO if the robots successfully throw the shuttlecocks through three rings, and for the highest ring, the shuttlecock lands on a golden disk on the opposite side.