Robocon Vietnam 2009 final round is about to start

Nearly 300 teams from 62 universities and colleges across the country participated in the qualifying competition of Robocon 2009 Creative Competition. 32 teams have won and officially entered the national finals, from the day May 11 to May 17 in Hue city .

All 32 teams are eager and determined to win the championship to compete in the Asia-Pacific Robot Innovation Contest held in Japan in August 2009 - the arena where Vietnam is the name that is promoted in a respectful way in 3 times of champion.

The Kago palanquin model that the Robocon teams played in
qualifying for 2009. ( Photo: Đăng Durable )

The Robocon competition started in 2002. After 7 times of organization, 2009 Robocon attracted the most crowded participation of universities and colleges (62 schools) and especially the number of participating schools. Colleges.

The theme of the 2009 Robocon competition that the host country of Japan proposed is "Triumphal drum beat", with the simulation being the Kago procession procession - an ancient custom of Japanese people in modern times. A robot carrying a palanquin automatically in the front and a robot carrying the palanquin in the back, cooperating to catch a 3rd robot - called "traveling robot" - onto the palanquin. The procession of these three robots must pass a difficult road including a 17 degree slope of a cliff, a forest with 3 wooden stakes in the way, and finally, the traveling robot must go down to the palanquin, climb on the platform and type 3 drums.

Currently, after qualifying, the performance of Vietnamese teams is standing at 45-60 seconds to hit 3 hours of drums. According to information from rival teams in the world, Vietnamese teams need to achieve achievements from 30-40 seconds to be able to once again bring the championship back. All are waiting for unexpected breakthroughs in the upcoming finals in Hue city.

Dr. Ngo Thai Tri, Head of the Jury of the 2009 Robocon competition, said that this year's exam topic seems to be less focused on antagonism but there is a show of technology and technology. The necessary skills for each robot are the safety, stability, accuracy, high speed, plus the intelligent programming and ingenuity and control of the operator. Improving cooperation between people and robots is also the exam content of 2009.

Thus, to manufacture and control the operation of a robot, students need to combine many skills of different professions such as automation, IT, mechanics, electronics and telecommunications .

Responding to the question, why did it take 8 years to organize and compete in the Robotcon competitions, but it was still simple, simple robots with running wheels, without any shape? of a typical robot, human-like and human-substituted, Pham Viet Tien, deputy head of the organizing committee of the Robocon 2009 competition explained: The purpose of the Robocon Contest is not to direct students to build robots. complex, which aims to arouse and promote the passion, creative ideas of students. Students who have graduated, engineers who have gone to work cannot participate in this contest.

Robocon is not only a competition but also a playground for students, to encourage endless creative ideas for students. Vietnamese students are eager to learn, tinkle and create, although the level of funding for them to create robots is not large, only with cheap materials and materials, but the achievements of teams Vietnam in the international arena was very respectable, with 3 championship titles, 1 second prize and some other impressive prizes.