Robots to climb "Everest" this December
Sept 28 - The Robotics Club of Pulchowk Campus in Lalitpur has successfully organized two national robot contests in the past two years, thus providing young and aspiring Nepali engineers from different faculties with the only platform of its kind to exhibit their talents and put their technical know-how into practical use by combining available resources and the latest technologies while making robots.
These competitions have certainly generated a huge amount of interest in engineering students, as is seen by the increasing number of participating colleges and the formation of a number of robotics clubs in many colleges of late. The objective continues this year too, as the club is organizing the third national robot contest in partnership with AYON (Association of Youth Organizations Nepal) on December 22 and 23, but with a new official name, Robocup Nepal, and under a new theme, Mission Everest.
Under this new theme of Robocup Nepal 2006, a team of manual and automatic robots from each participating college is required to simulate the climbing of Mt Everest and reach its summit while also clearing the wastes and litters on the way and transporting the supplies to the base camp within a time period of three minutes.
The contest will be played in a round robin league format, after which the winners from each group will move into the knockout stage and the eventual winner will be declared the Everest Conqueror. A total of 12 colleges including Eastern College of Engineering from Biratnagar and Pokhara Engineering College from Pokhara along with 10 engineering colleges from Kathmandu Valley had participated at a one-day workshop on the contest held at Pulchowk Campus on September 6. The workshop also had presentations and demonstrations by the Robotics Club team which had won the Toyota Award at this year's ABU Robocon contest in Malaysia.
In the two previous editions of the competition, the First National Machine Design Competition Robo Soccer 2004 was a soccer contest, while the robots in the Second National Robot Contest Robo Shooter 2005 had to shoot bowling pins with their balls.
Interestingly, the first edition was won by robot Kaal Bhairav of National College of Engineering while the second was won by Trikaal of Kathmandu Engineering College.
The similar names of these past winners may be passed off as just a coincidence, but it would certainly be interesting to see whether this year's Everest Conqueror robot will also have the word “Kaal” somehow prefixed or suffixed in its name.
(PR)
Posted on: 2006-09-28 21:59:56 (Server Time)
source : The Kathmandu Post Daily
These competitions have certainly generated a huge amount of interest in engineering students, as is seen by the increasing number of participating colleges and the formation of a number of robotics clubs in many colleges of late. The objective continues this year too, as the club is organizing the third national robot contest in partnership with AYON (Association of Youth Organizations Nepal) on December 22 and 23, but with a new official name, Robocup Nepal, and under a new theme, Mission Everest.
Under this new theme of Robocup Nepal 2006, a team of manual and automatic robots from each participating college is required to simulate the climbing of Mt Everest and reach its summit while also clearing the wastes and litters on the way and transporting the supplies to the base camp within a time period of three minutes.
The contest will be played in a round robin league format, after which the winners from each group will move into the knockout stage and the eventual winner will be declared the Everest Conqueror. A total of 12 colleges including Eastern College of Engineering from Biratnagar and Pokhara Engineering College from Pokhara along with 10 engineering colleges from Kathmandu Valley had participated at a one-day workshop on the contest held at Pulchowk Campus on September 6. The workshop also had presentations and demonstrations by the Robotics Club team which had won the Toyota Award at this year's ABU Robocon contest in Malaysia.
In the two previous editions of the competition, the First National Machine Design Competition Robo Soccer 2004 was a soccer contest, while the robots in the Second National Robot Contest Robo Shooter 2005 had to shoot bowling pins with their balls.
Interestingly, the first edition was won by robot Kaal Bhairav of National College of Engineering while the second was won by Trikaal of Kathmandu Engineering College.
The similar names of these past winners may be passed off as just a coincidence, but it would certainly be interesting to see whether this year's Everest Conqueror robot will also have the word “Kaal” somehow prefixed or suffixed in its name.
(PR)
Posted on: 2006-09-28 21:59:56 (Server Time)
source : The Kathmandu Post Daily
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