UTAR Robocon Team
2022
Robocon Malaysia is a
robot-building competition, jointly organised by Universiti Sains Malaysia
(USM), the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia and Radio Televisyen
Malaysia (RTM) this year. Inspired by a traditional game in South India, the
competition this year required the participants to create two robots to
complete a Lagori, a traditional game that originated from the southern part of
India, also known as seven stones or
tuju tin here in Malaysia.
A team of eight students from UTAR
Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science (LKC FES) emerged as the
winner of the Top 8 team award (8
Pasukan Terbaik) at the competition. Among the team members were
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Physics student Elton Mah Song Zhe; Bachelor
of Engineering (Honours) Mechatronics Engineering students Jefferson Ting
Kit Din, Leong Khai Shuen, Leong Qi Ye, Shaw Chun Lin, Lee Min Shen, Er Kai
Sheng and Wong Yee Hang. Ranked 8 out of 24 teams in the competition, the
students walked away with medals and certificates. The competition took
place from 2 June 2022 to 5 June 2022 at Kompleks Sukan Azman Hashim, USM.
Students with
their robots
The students said, “Our team is
comprised of members from various science and engineering backgrounds with
the majority being mechatronics students. Ever since the hiatus from the
recent two-year pandemic, UTAR’s ROBOCON team has seen a decline in numbers
as well as seniors to guide the newcomers. With the pandemic restrictions
lifted this year, we have gathered new and inexperienced but enthusiastic
members to compete in the competition. We aim to reignite our annual ROBOCON
team activity with this small effort.”
They added, “We were thrilled to
bits when we heard the joyous news of us winning the top 8 Team award.
Although we came close to being qualified for the next round, we have
already achieved something far beyond our expectations. With a small team of
8 and also limited time and resources, we have given our best shot and
effort, even as far as giving the major teams a run for their money.
Although we are proud of our achievements, we are still not satisfied with
our current results. Therefore, we strive to improve our robots for next
year’s competition and will surely be back to win.”
The students also explained, “The
game takes place between two teams (Team 1: “Seeker” and Team 2: “Hitter”)
and the game starts when the seeker throws a ball to break the stone tower
called Lagori. While the seekers
try to pile up the stones again, the hitter throws balls to interrupt them.”
“We have built two robots, R1 to
shoot the balls and R2 to pick up the
Lagori disks. Although our robots lacked advanced technology for
movement and gripping, our robots were stable enough to out-manoeuvre most
of the teams. As long as the ball on top of the R2 robot doesn’t fall, we
are able to beat our opponents by 1 Lagori disk worth of points. We also focused on the shooting speed
of R1. Given the situation of a tie, the team with the shortest time to
break the Lagori pile wins the
match. We perfected our shooting mechanism and so it was able to break the
pile within 3 seconds, faster than any other team in the group. Due to the
points we scored in total, we were placed top 8 out of all the other
competitors,” they added.
Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Union
(ABU) Robot Competition (Robocon) is a yearly Asian-Oceanian college
robot-building competition.
The medals
UTAR Robocon Team
2022 receiving medal from the competition organiser
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