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spotlight: Robot rumble | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Four robot design classes host public exhibits and competitions this week. Come watch and cheer them all! |
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6.095 - Robo-One humanoid robotics competition Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 6:00pm, 37-212 (follow signs from Lobby 7 or Stata) In this IAP workshop, students spend several weeks building and programming a commercialized humanoid robot for an exciting exhibition. In the spirit of the Robo-One competition in Japan, the goal of the workshop is to give students hands-on experience with tackling humanoid robot control problems, such as stably walking on flat ground, walking up stairs, running, and even fighting! The challenge is to produce the fastest running gaits and the deadliest fighting motions to compete against the other robots at a death match. Presentations provide brief reviews of the state of the art in humanoid robot control techniques, much like those of Honda's Asimo. Visit the Robo-One website for more information. 6.270 - autonomous robot design competition Thursday, January 31, 2008, 6:00pm, 26-100 This event will be televised live on MIT cable. 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing, student-taught class in which teams design, build and program a robot for the annual final contest at the end of IAP. 6.270 teaches students about robot design by giving them the hardware, software and information they need to design, build and debug their own robot. It's time (and fun) intensive, running from the start of IAP, at ludicrous speed to the exciting public final competition at the end. Check out the class website for more information. 6.370 - Battlecode programming competition Friday, February 1, 2008, 7-9 pm, Kresge Auditorium The 6.370 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge that combines battle strategy, software engineering and artificial intelligence. The objective is to write the best player program for the computer game Battlecode. During IAP, each team develops a player program, which will be run by each of their robots during BattleCode matches. Contestants must master artificial intelligence, pathfinding, distributed algorithms, and network communications to write their player. The competition will culminate in a live BattleCode tournament. For more information, visit the Battlecode website. 6.186 - MASLab: Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory Saturday, February 2, 2008, 3:30 pm (open house at 2:30 pm), 26-100 MASLab/6.186 is an advanced autonomous robotics contest emphasizing technical AI, vision, mapping, and navigation from a mounted camera, with few restrictions on materials, sensor, or actuators, enabling students to build robots very creatively. MASLab provides a significantly more difficult robotics problem than many other university-level robotics contests. Although students know the general size, shape, and color of the floors and walls, the students do not know the exact layout of the playing field. In addition, MASLab robots are completely autonomous, or in other words, the robots operate, calculate, and plan without human intervention. Visit the MASLab website for more information. |
 Robo-One: students get hands-on experience with humanoid robot control problems, such as walking running, and even fighting!
 6.270: a hands-on, learn-by-doing, student-taught class
 Battlecode 2008: 6.370 programming competition
 Students competing in Maslab |
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