High school students participating in the FIRST Team 423 - SEC Robotics won a Judges
Award at Philadelphia Regional FIRST
Robotics Competition held on March 27 29, 2008. We are proud to share this
award and honor with the team as our software was used as a part of the
project.
The FIRST
Robotics Competition, FRC, is an international robotics competition for
high-school-aged students involving over 1,300 teams, 35,000 students, 40
regional competitions with a championship event held inside the Georgia Supper
Dome. FIRST, For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization, founded by Dean Kamen,
inventor of the Segway Personal Transport, dedicated to inspiring young people
to become science and technology heroes.
This year competition,
FIRST Over Drive, had six robots racing around a 27x 54 race track while
trying to coral and hurdle 40 balls, which weigh about 10 pounds, over a 6
high bar. So, students were to build and design robots that manage this task
within 6 weeks.
One of the
aspects is software that ensures correct robot driving. Instrumentation
ModelKit was used to design custom dashboard to monitor the state and nature of
the system.
Joshua
Lynn, Engineering Mentor of the 423
SEC Robotics Team,
We had a
very specific need and no ability to code the graphics to accomplish what was
required to make one aspect of our control system interactive. Thanks to the Instrumentation ModelKit we
were able to build, tweak, refine and implement the graphical representation of
our system we need to make interactive without writing a single line of code! This was key to our success because we had
other code that was essential to write or the machine would not function.
And all
teams effort was awarded and honored by the judges:
"There's
no mayhem in this robot because it uses innovative software to interpret
commands and make smart decisions. Their
clever design has added the intelligence of a "5th" player to the
drive team."
We
congratulate the 423 SEC Robotics Team
on this recognition and wish them luck in future competitions. Keep it up!
For more
information on the 423 SEC Robotics
Team project and the use of Instrumentation ModelKit in it, please review the article:
http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Product.aspx?lang=en&pid=22&tid=roboticscompetition&pr
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