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Draivera

Not too long ago, a “driverless car” was a mere figment of imagination... But soon, (Google promises). (If Google is to be believed), it will no longer be confined to the drawing boards of engineers.... you might ride one of them on your way back from college! The patent that Google filed and got granted too, speaks voumes for its promises!

The challenge is simple..you will have to design a model of a driverless bus that can travel along a path , and do most of what a driver would do. Come on guys, help bring good ol’ Google’s dream to the masses.

The arena will simulate a large city neighbourhood. The road will be 25cm wide. In the middle there will be a white line 2.5cm thick that will follow the contours of the road. The dimension of the robot must not exceed 20cm X 20cm 20cm. The bot, simulating a bus, will have to stop at the designated bus stops. It will have to wait there for 15seconds. In case it senses any human presence, it must open its doors, which can be indicated by simple LED indicators. All human models will be on the left side of the road, as is the convention in India. After 15seconds, it must close its doors and move along. There will also be boom barriers along the road. In case a boom barrier falls, the robot must wait until the boom barrier is lifted, to pass.  A simple application of the age old “line follower” robots.

  1. Maximum team size 4.

  2. The robot must be autonomous.

  3. The participants must be students of same/different college(s). No faculty member of any college is permitted to aid the participants during the event.

  4. The participants will have two time-outs each of 1 minute each. After the time out, the participants will have to start from the “previous” pit stops.

  5. Participating teams can be severely penalised or even disqualified in case they are found guilty of purposefully damaging the arena or its contents.

  6. The decisions of the judges will be final and binding.

  1. The road will be exactly 20 cm wide and be of black colour.

  2. The rest of the arena ground will be white in colour.

  3. The human models will be 15cm tall.

  4. The human models will be placed 2-3cm away from the roadside.

  5. The boom barriers will be placed at a height of 10cm and will be 5cm thick.

  6. You MUST indicate using LEDs the opening and closing of doors.

The entire scoring pattern is based on the rule “Highest scorer loses”. Some essential points:

  1. The bus must stop for approximately 15secs at the bus stop(14-16secs). Stopping more /less than that will lead to 5 points penalty.

  2. Colliding with a boom barrier will lead to 20 points penalty.

  3. Failing to stop at a bus stop will lead to 20 points penalty.

  4. Colliding with humans will lead to 15 points penalty.

  5. Colliding with other elements of the arena will lead to 5 points penalty.

  6. Failure to stop AT ALL at a bus stop will lead to 20 points penalty.

  7. Failure to open the doors at the bus stop/opening the doors while it should be closed will lead to a penalty of 20 points.

  8. The total time(in seconds) to complete the track will be added to the total penalty points.

At the end of any round, the sum of all the penalty points will be evaluated and qualifiers or winners will decided depending on how low the score is of a team.

  1. Vivek Roy 8100074458

  2. Anindya Pakhira 9088284579

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