26th Annual ASEE Model Design Competition

Objective: In honor of our Oregon (‘The Beaver State’) 2024 ASEE host, participating student teams are invited to design and build an autonomous robot that can successfully

• cut down, acquire, and transport 12 (popsicle sticks) trees to either a river or pond area of the 4’x8’ playing field (to ostensibly be used to build a beaver dam, which is not required) within a 120-second time period.
• The (popsicle sticks) trees will be mounted in an upright orientation (within 20° of vertical) on 3D printed bases. These plastic tree bases are permanently fixed to the plywood playfield with two (#5) screws. Each tree base is designed to hold the tree loosely for grabbing or allow the tree to fall ‘inward’ across the black line path if lightly jostled.
• The pond is a hexagon region surrounded by a 2” x 2” wood border. The pond is located in the center of the 4’ X 8’ plywood field, which also has 2” x 2” wood border.
• The river is two regions on the surface of the play field, is painted blue, and bordered only by black electrical tape lines. The river does not have a wood border.
• A black line (of 3/4” wide electrical tape) on the playfield surface will wind through the forest of trees, allowing robots to find, cut down, and acquire trees in any preferred sequence. This line disappears, and is not present in the river area of the field surface.

See the 2024 Official Rules in the “Resources” section below for complete details