Roboking
Roboking is a Germany-wide robot competition for schoolchildren . The level of difficulty of the tasks is chosen so that beginners in particular are able to participate.
The competition took place for the first time in April 2004 and is organized annually by the Professorship for Process Automation at Chemnitz University of Technology . The aim is to construct your own autonomously acting robot . Every year there is a new task. The participants have about 10 months to solve the task. For this purpose, the teams of a maximum of five, supported by an adult team leader, each have a budget of € 350. The robot can be kept after the competition. At Roboking 2007 there is for the first time the possibility of any number of self-financed teams taking part.
After about half a year, there is an intermediate competition to compare yourself with the other teams. On this preliminary round, the participants must qualify for the final round. The finals and the awards ceremony took place in 2004 and 2005 at the Hanover Fair . In 2006 and 2007 the final took place at the CEBIT in Hanover .
The last competition to date took place in 2008. The 2009 competition was canceled at the end of the registration period. Some of the main reasons for this were too few participants and too few sponsors from the industry.
The 2004 task
The first competition was held from June 2003 to April 2004. The task was to build a robot that could find its way around a labyrinth . In the final competition, two teams competed against each other to find light buoys in this labyrinth and to switch to their game color.
The 2005 task
In 2005, the aim was to compete with another robot to get as many tennis balls as possible to the home base within five minutes. The robot could also empty the opponent's base by pressing a switch and thus take away points that were received for each ball in the base. The robots were subject to certain criteria, such as B. a scope restriction, but were still very individual. The task was a little more difficult compared to the previous year. B. the floor of the field was no longer provided with orientation lines.
The 2006 task
In 2006 the task was to program the robot in such a way that it can load stones on one side of the playing field and bring them to the other side through an obstacle course with a bridge, a ravine and a forest. This is where the king's castle is being built, whose gold (tennis balls) had to be collected in the previous year's task. The competition time was seven minutes. The competition was held for the first time at digital living parallel to CEBIT .
The 2007 task
In 2007, the task was to program a robot that transported table tennis balls onto the opposing half of the game. These represented stones, hence the name "rockfall in the mountains". The table tennis balls were hit by tennis balls, which required an additional differentiation of the balls. In the end, the team of the robot that had as few stones as possible on its own half of the game won.
The 2008 task
Under the motto “Ritterspiele”, the task in 2008 is to build and program a robot in such a way that it finds the tennis balls randomly distributed on the field and transports them to its two home bases. The robot can also empty the opposing bases by tearing off a ring in the middle of the field. The winner is whoever has the most tennis balls in their bases at the end of the game.
The task 2009 (planned)
The planned task envisaged that two robots would have competed against each other and had to bring as many wooden cubes as possible from one starting point to different locations. At each of these locations, the number of dice the two teams had in the end would have been counted. For every place where one team had more dice than the other, there would be a point. The team with the most points would have won.
