ROBOCON'17
In ABU Robocon 2017, twenty-three GTU affiliated colleges students were part of the team. Definitely, we were expanding our horizons. From the past year’s experience, the team now knew exactly what to do and how to do. This year the novice became the experts and defeated some of the oldest teams of ABU Robocon. Once again the team’s hard work and determination were fruitful and we succeeded in securing 27th position out of 116 participating teams. The competition’s level increases each year and so does the proficiency of GRTains. We also won the MATLAB competition this year and were awarded the official MATLAB key. Yet another year of ABU Robocon successfully completed and the team members bonded into a family. This family has now set a legacy and a promising bright future which is quite exciting in itself.
About Theme
ABU Robocon 2017 came with another sensational theme. This time it was being organized by Tokyo and the theme was based on the country's traditional game TOSENKYO. The theme was ‘Asobi: The Landing Disk’. In this theme, each team had to design a robot that could throw disk and make it land on the seven different heightened poles in the arena. Two teams compete with one another for three minutes and the team that succeeded to place at least one disk on each pole wins the game. That win would be called ‘Appare’. If either of the team could not do the Appare then the team that scores higher wins the game. The Asobi spirit is encouraged which says - It’s not about who wins the competition rather sharing the fun in the competition.
Team 2017
As soon as the theme was declared for the year the team was all set to rock once again. The past mistakes were carved to perfection and concepts that were shallow last time were dived thoroughly with prior hands-on on multiple components. The students from previous year's experience build an analogous situation for the newly recruited students which they named ‘Mini-Robocon’. This year’s theme required some solid mathematical computation which was carried on MATLAB. This year the team was a perfect mixture of the novice and the experts. The experience from last year and the eager-to-learn attitude of the newly recruited students lead to the development of a new line follower sensor by the team. At the end, only one team had to win and unfortunately this time we didn’t hit the bull's eye. Yet the team’s performance escalated to a much greater extent which is a positive sign. If the same success rate continues, the victory will be at doorsteps very soon.
