- Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration
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Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration Current season or competition:
All Your Base / Best Trajectory
Sport Robotics-related games Founded CARD Planning Committee Inaugural season 2011 No. of teams 10 teams Country(ies) United States The Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration (CARD) is a robotics competition for college and university students inspired by FIRST. The inaugural event was held at the 2011 FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
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History
The possibility of a college-level FIRST competition has been discussed for many years. At the 2010 FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, a group of college students and faculty were invited to a discussion in which FIRST Founders Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers and Editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson proposed the idea[2] of a college-level FIRST program. Chris Anderson suggested the inclusion of aerial robots in the college level program and demonstrated a robotic quadrotor (a Parrot AR.Drone) and an RC blimp. As a result of the meeting, a planning committee was formed to design and promote a college-level program. In December 2010, a kickoff video was released giving an overview of the program.[3] Further documents and team updates have established and clarified the demonstration competition and game rules. The possibility of having a full college-level FIRST competition is still being discussed.
Games
2011
There are two games played on fields equivalent to the FRC standard size (54 feet by 27 feet). For both games there were two competing alliances, each with two teams each composed of one air vehicle and one ground vehicle.
The first game, All Your Base, involves a 3 by 3 grid of 4'6" tall rectangular bases. Ground robots capture bases by shooting projectiles (tennis balls) through openings on one or two sides of the base. Aerial robots capture bases by picking up a virtual payload from their starting location and then landing on top of the base. Teams score bonus points by capturing three bases in a row.[4]
The second game is The Best Trajectory. Ground robots score points by shooting projectiles across a large trapezoidal barrier placed at midfield into mobile goals on the other side. Aerial robots can retrieve foam cube "payloads" from the top of the barrier and drop them into the goals to multiply the score of that goal. Drivers will not be able to see past the barrier. Teams may use their aerial robots to relay targeting data from the other side of the barrier.[4] This game was never played at the 2011 demonstration in order to maintain the learning curve for teams playing All Your Base, as the result of a collective team and planning committee decision.
A third game design, named FIRST Flight, was removed from the schedule for the inaugural competition and was replaced with a practice course for the aerial robots.
2012
The demonstration will be continued for the 2012 FIRST season.
Colleges/universities involved
Teams
(Numbering reflects assigned team numbers)[5]
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Oakland University
- Pace University
- University of Wisconsin-Platteville
- University of Minnesota
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- University of Washington
- Clarkson University
Other Involvement
See also
References
- ^ "Home". CARD. http://collegiateaerialrobotics.org/home. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ "Report from FIRST Robotics aerial robotics planning meeting". DIY Drones. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/report-from-first-robotics. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ College-level FIRST Pilot 2011 Kickoff. http://vimeo.com/17484250.
- ^ a b 2011 College-level Demonstration Program Overview v1.12. CARD Planning Committee. 18 April 2011. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&srcid=0B-SCpP-o9hKEZWJkYmYwOGEtYWY2My00N2NjLWEzZDktODNkMzQ3OWI4NzJk&hl=en&authkey=CM2L9sIG.
- ^ 18 April 2011 Team Email Update
- ^ "Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration". Worcester Polytechnic Institute. http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/aerial_vehicle_exploration;jsessionid=792FB1F319E2029C0B174F3857D0E6BD. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
External links
FIRST People Dean Kamen · John Abele · Jon Dudas · Woodie Flowers · Walt Havenstein · Dave Lavery · Amir Abo-Shaeer
Programs Competitions: Maize Craze · Rug Rage · Tower Power · Ramp 'n Roll · Hexagon Havoc · Toroid Terror · Ladder Logic · Double Trouble · Co-Opertition FIRST · Diabolical Dynamics · Zone Zeal · Stack Attack · FIRST Frenzy · Triple Play · Aim High (season) · Rack 'n Roll (season) · FIRST Overdrive · Lunacy · Breakaway · Logo Motion (season)
Challenges: Half-Pipe Hustle · Hangin'-A-Round · Quad Quandary · Face Off · Hot Shot! · Get Over It! · Bowled Over! (current)Challenges: FIRST Contact · Volcanic Panic · Arctic Impact · City Sights · Mission Mars · No Limits · Ocean Odyssey · Nano Quest · Power Puzzle · Climate Connections · Smart Move · Body Forward · Food Factor / Snack Attack (current)Collegiate Aerial Robotics DemonstrationCompetition: All Your Base/The Best TrajectoryChampionships FIRST Championship · FIRST LEGO League Open ChampionshipsRelated Coopertition · The New Cool
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