ORGANIZATION PLAN
“DANCING ROBOT 2016 CONTEST”
I. Purpose:
- To create a scientific playground for students in the field of automation and facilitate students’ application of embedded programming knowledge into practice;
- To provide students with opportunity to introduce their research, scientific and technological innovation results;
- To strengthen mutual understanding, academic exchanges between the institutions.
II. Contest participants:
HCMUTE’s Student and Students from both other Vietnamese and Foreign partner universities
III. Time and venue:
Date: May 23rd, 2016
Time: From 8:00AM
Venue: The main Hall, HoChiMinh City University of Technology and Education, No. 1 Vo Van Ngan, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City.
IV. Competition rules:
- Shape Registration: Team or individual.
- Registration Form: Foreign Students can enroll via email: hanquoc@hcmute.edu.vn or khcn@hcmute.edu.vn
- Each team hands in a robot picture and a background music file. (Please see Rules of dancing Robot 2016).
- Registration fee: free
V. Tentative Prizes:
- 01 First prize: 10.000.000 VND/prize + Champion Cup
- 01 Second prize: 5.000.000 VND/prize
- 02 Third prize: 3.000.000 VND/prize
- 02 Incentive prize: 1.000.000 VND/Prize, one for Robot gets the most movements and one for Robot gets the best shape/form.
- And many other prizes from sponsors, total of prizes values more than 50.000.000VNĐ.
VI. Rule for competing robots:
The contest has three rounds:
ü Round 1:
- Competition period: 3 minutes
- Competing robots do free-style dancing following the music given by the organizer.
- The robots are separated into 3 groups A, B and C, respectively. Those in the same group compete to each other to find the best one. Then the best ones of groups compete together.
ü Round 2:
- Competition period: 3 minutes
- The selected robots dance in compliance with the given techno music varying from low to high speed and vice-versa. The robots must be able to self-adjust their moving speed accordingly.
- Each group includes only two (02) teams to do direct competition.
ü Round 3 (Final):
Each robot does SOLO-DANCE within 2 minutes in accordance with the given music.
* NOTE: The Champion Robot will be selected basing on the evaluation (grades) of the Judge committee on how excellently they meet with the following criteria:
- Diversity of movements
- Fitness between movements and music
- Appearance and beauty of movements.
VII. Prerequisites for competing robots:
- Robots must be able to move on 2 feet firmly and independently.
- No limit of weight and dimensions is applied for the robots.
- Operators are not allowed to touch the robots during the competition period. By breaking this rule, the robot will be immediately dismissed.
- The robots can move to any point within the stage area but cannot bump into other robots. In case a robot is kicked off the stage due to other robots, it can return to compete again later.
- In order to be considered as one dance-step, the whole robot body part must move (i.e. the dance-step of the arm must include the movement of the scapula (shoulder-joint)).
- The competition background music is mp3 type that is 128 kps and 44 kHz standard.
- The 3m x 3m competition stage is made of wood and white painted.
