Technical Communications I

Technical Manual and Specifications:

The Race of the Strongest

Çınar Reis
Utana Mojahed
Contents
List of Figures.................................................................................................................3

1. Overview of the Course Design................................Error! Bookmark not defined.

2. Procedural Description of the Course Rules.............Error! Bookmark not defined.

List of Figures
Figure 1: map of the project.................................................................4
Overview of the Course Design

Figure 1: The map of the project

As it starts the robot needs to follow the metal strip, therefore, the builder of the robot
has to make the robot with a metal strip reader. The first obstacle is a hole. The robot
has to avoid all the holes, it should not fall in them. The robot also needs to follow
the path with the points accordingly, where there is not a metal strip, so that it can
find its way properly. After the second hole, the robot needs to follow along the metal
strip, and find its way through many holes. After passing those holes successfully, a
harder challenge awaits for the robot. This time it needs to identify the rocks placed
on his way. Then it needs to put all the rocks in to the hole to clear the path. On the
other hand, the robot must detect, read and follow along the instructions given from
the LED flasher, while doing all of the other challenges. Finally, the robot faces
another rock challenge. Once it completes this last challenge, the robot successfully
finalizes the path.
Procedural Description of the Course Rules

 Robots must stay on the track

 If a robot is stuck in position for more than 5 seconds, it will be disqualified from that
attempt.
 Teams are not allowed to communicate with the robots
 Teams are not allowed to interfere with the robots or the track
 Only 1 robot will be allowed on the track at a time
 Robots will be timed, with the shortest time winning
 Robots will also have to complete tasks, a 10 second penalty will be given for any
tasks not completed
 Each team will get 3 attempts to complete the course; the best time will be taken
 Each team may have a maximum of 2 robots. This does not give the team more
attempts. Teams may choose to have only 1 robot. If a team does have 2 robots,
they may choose to only use 1.
 Any unauthorized equipment on robots will result in disqualification
 Robots will be allowed to be decorated, so long as these decorations do not interfere
with or improve a robot’s performance.