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The Pilot Study
It is in each team’s interest to present at best its pilot study to the refereeing committee in order to avoid errors or imprecision in the interpretation of the rules.
Eurobot Association and Planète Sciences guarantee the confidentiality of the information given by the teams.
Each team has to make a pilot study divided into two parts:
· A questionnaire about general information on the team, to be filled directly on this document;
·A descriptive of the project written by the team and made on the structure given on the page 3 of this document.
The pilot study has to be uploaded in the database registration
Before the 31st of March 2010or send it at
registration@eurobot.org
You must send us a numeric version (.pdf) of the pilot study and sketches of the devices designed during the year. These information will be used by the refereeing committee to warn you about points which could lead to a non approval of the robot the day of the competition.
Could you please use the address above and the following subject when you send us your documents: “Pilot study of the team …………”
The name of the team has to be written on the questionnaire and the descriptive document.
Questionnaire
Name of the team:......1.Number of people involved on the project:………………
2.Is it the first participation to the contest for the team ?
YesNo
3.Did some of the team members take part in the contest before?
YesNo
4.Do you wish the visit of a Eurobot volunteer to help/assist during the year?
YesNo
5. Provisional budget of the project: ………………………
6.Do you accept the technical information contained in this pilot study to be published?
YesNo
7.If yes, do you allow the publication of these information before the contest?
YesNo
Descriptive of the project
It is compulsory to fill in the fields marked with a star (*)
I - General description
·(*) The robot in overall:
- describe in a few lines what your robot will do during a match and how it will do it
- list all its dimensions (start perimeter, deployed perimeter, height)
· (*) Simple outline of the robot;
·(*) Clear explanation of the different strategies you have thought about.
(*) Give a draw of your robot
II – Technical description
For the moment, your robot may not be finished. If you have not made some parts yet, please indicate here what you plan to do. Moreover, if you do not plan to include some of these parts in your robot, indicate it here.
·(*) Robot moving: your motors: type and speed you have planned for the robot.
Motion control for the moving;
·(*) Power supply: type, autonomy and recharging time you have planned;
·(*) Fruits, seeds and vegetable management: actuators/captors used, device used to manipulate them; a drawing of your robot explaining how the column element are managed would be interesting
· (*) Position of the robot on the game area: how will your robot know its position on the game area? If the robot uses beacons, which type of beacon is it and what is the way of transmission? How the robot will detect the seeds, vegetables, fruits, the contener ?
How will the robot be able to detect the opposite robots (description of the avoidance system)? Don’t forget this system is mandotory
·(*) Robot intelligence: kind of controlling system (analogue computer, microprocessors, PC main board...), programming language. Quickly describe the algorithms you intend to use.
·(*)What will be your strategy to score points?
·(*) If you use devices based on lasers (home made or provided by suppliers, ), detail with precision their nature, their class, how you will use them, and how do you plan to comply with safety related constraints listed in the rules. You will have to communicate the classification certificate of your device or component as provided by their maker.
III – Organisation
· How tasks will be distributed over the members, members’ skills (electronics, mechanics, computer science, project management…);
·Schedule planned;
· Equipment available (provided by the structure or personal equipment);
·Partnership: is it material (components, raw material…), financial…
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