Tampa Florida
The ASEE 2019 national competition was held in Tampa Florida this year. The theme was designed around Florida being the site for many natural disasters. The goal was to build an autonomous robot which would collect and deliver 3 injured individuals to a hospital and 4 stranded individuals and deliver them to the shelter. Additionally there was a simulated fire in the back corner which needed to be extinguished which is done so by depositing a racquetball. The teams each get four trial runs in which all of the objectives have to be completed within a 120 second time frame and there was a time bonus for delivering the injured to the hospital. Lastly, the robot or robots, had a size constraint of 10″x10″x12″ for all robots combined during a trial run.
Disclaimer
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I don’t prohibit students from standing in front of the camera. It can be nerve racking to stand in front of an audience as your robot does whatever it’s going to do. You hope it does what you programmed it to do but it’s a completely different environment so lots of things can go wrong. Fortunately, there weren’t a whole lot of obstructions this year so I got good video of most runs. I did miss one run due to a card that filled up.
Competition Photos
Off Duty Photos
Competition Videos
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Results and Conclusion
This year the robots were pretty consistent, the biggest trouble I saw robots having was collection of the dowels. A few had some one off mistakes where they bumped a pedestal or obstacle but by and large that was not a consistent issue. Here are the final results
