CS684 Spring 2021

Final Run

• The maximum time allotted to complete the task is 10 minutes.
• A maximum of two repositions (explained below) is allowed for each team.
• Once the robot is switched on, human intervention is NOT allowed.
• Robot is not allowed to traverse through the Plot, it always has to follow the black line for traversal.
• For the final demonstration, the Arena Configuration will NOT be given to any of the teams.The robot must navigate through a randomly setup arena and autonomously detect the White Debris, identify the Survivors without any prior knowledge of the arena configuration.
  Note: You MUST have a generic solution that can handle any setup, in real-time.
• Any of the 16 Plots may contain survivor.
• Debris may be placed on path of any of the Plots such that every Plot in the arena will have at least one path for the robot to reach to the Survivor.
• A run ends and the timer is stopped when:
  • The Robot stops at medical camp or
  • If the maximum time limit for completing the task is reached or
  • If the team needs repositioning but has used all repositioning options.
    

Repositioning the Robot

Suppose while traversing the arena, the robot strays off the black line, team member can place the robot on the previous node (node already traversed by the robot) by dragging (not lifting) the robot back to the line in such a way that both the wheels of robot are parallel to the node and castor wheel is on the black line. This is termed as a Reposition. Note that the timer used for measuring the task completion time in the competition will be continuously running during a Reposition and robot will not be switched off.