Servo - March 2010

This is the famous annual CMU autonomous mobile robot race.

www.cs.cmu.edu/~mobot

24- 25

17

SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Contest Boulder, CO Autonomous ground and air robots must circumnavigate the SparkFun building. http://sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info. php?products_id=9016

Trenton Computer Festival Robotics Contest
The College of New Jersey Campus Ewing
Township, New Jersey
In addition to computer and ham radio
events, there are usually several autonomous
robot contests. Previous contests included
maze navigation, precipice avoidance, and line
following.
www.tcf-nj.org

17

UC Davis Picnic Day Micromouse Contest
University of California,
Davis Campus, CA
The annual micromouse maze solving contest.
www.ece.ucdavis.edu/umouse

MAY

2

18

Robot-SM
Västerås, Sweden
Sumo, mini Sumo, and a robot pentathlon.
www.robotsm.se
Hawaii Underwater Robot Challenge
Richardson Pool, Pearl Harbor Naval Station,
Honolulu, HI
ROV teams engage in timed, multitasking missions
with tethered vehicles.
www.marinetech.org/rov_competition

3-8

22- 24

VEX Robotics World Championship
Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX
This is a really big world gathering of VEX teams
for both autonomous and remote controlled
competition.
www.vexrobotics.com/competition
ICRA Robot Challenge
Anchorage, AK
The challenge includes several events such
as Mobile Microbotics, Mobile Manipulation,
human-robot interaction, and a virtual
manufacturing challenge.
http://icra.wustl.edu

23- 25

RoboGames

San Mateo Fairgrounds, San Mateo, CA BEAM, Mindstorms, combat, and just about every other form of autonomous and remote controlled robot competition you can imagine. www.robogames.net

STEER WINNING ROBOTS WITHOUT SERVOS!

24

Penn State Abington Fire-Fighting Robot
Contest
Penn State Abington,
Abington, PA
Autonomous robots must navigate a scale model
of a house, search for a fire, and extinguish it.
www.ecsel.psu.edu/~avanzato/robots/
contests

24

Penn State Abington Mini Grand Challenge
Penn State Abington,
Abington, PA
Autonomous mobile robots navigate an outdoor
course.
www.ecsel.psu.edu/~avanzato/robots/
contests

24

The Tech Museum of Innovation’s Annual
Tech Challenge
San Jose, CA
This year’s competition is called Space Junk.
http://techchallenge.thetech.org

Perform proportional speed, direction, and steering with only two Radio/Control channels for vehicles using two separate brush-type electric motors mounted right and left with our mixing RDFR dual speed control. Used in many successful competitive robots. Single joystick operation: up goes straight ahead, down is reverse. Pure right or left twirls vehicle as motors turn opposite directions. In between stick positions completely proportional. Plugs in like a servo to your Futaba, JR, Hitec, or similar radio. Compatible with gyro steering stabilization. Various volt and amp sizes available. The RDFR47E 55V 75A per motor unit pictured above. www.vantec.com