International METU Robotics Days  2012

Slaloming Category Rules

1-      The aim is to reach to “turn obstacle” (the furthest barrier to starting point) by slaloming (passing the consecutive barriers, which are aligned in the same direction, from different sides; as, from left of one barrier, then from right of the next one, or vice versa) and to make a U-turn from “the turn obstacle” in accordance with the right-left order and to come back to starting point in the shortest time again by slaloming; without leaving the track and without touching the barriers.

2-      The track is 1 meter wide and 6 meters long and its surface is in black color.

3-      There will be 7 barriers having the dimensions of 10x10x10, 10x15x10, 10x20x10 cm (width x  length x height)

4-      The barriers will be situated in the very middle of the track in a linear position.

5-      The “turn obstacle”,  which the robots will make a U-turn around, has the dimensions of 15x15x15 cm and will be placed 50 cm to the end of the track, collinear with all other barriers

6-      The distribution of the barriers in the track will be determined by drawing, after the robots that are going to compete are taken under surveillance. No robots will be included in the competition after the drawing. If there is any robots taken out from surveillance, that robots will be excluded.

7-      The distance between two barriers will be at least 40 cm.

8-      The distance between two barriers can be at most 100 cm.

9-      Between the barriers, in the very middle of the track, there will be a white line having 1,9 cm of width, beginning 10 cm after the previous barrier and finishing 10 cm before the next barrier.

10-  There is no limitation for width, length, height and weight of robots

11-  Any robot that is out of the track will begin the race again. The robots which are out of the track three times will disqualified.

12-  Any robot that touches the barriers will be fined for 20 seconds for each barrier. If the robot crashes the barrier and stops* it will be put to the middle of the barrier it crashed and the previous barrier, in a linear position to the barriers and be fined for 30 seconds. If the robot crashes the same barrier and stops 3 times in a row, it will be disqualified.

13-  Any robot that touches the “turn obstacle” will be fined for 25 seconds. If the robot crashes the “turn obstacle” and stops* it will be put to the middle of the barrier before and the “turn obstacle”, in a linear position to the barriers and be fined for 35 seconds. If the robot crashes the “turn obstacle” and stops 3 times in a row, it will be disqualified.

14-  Any robot that passes from the same side of 2 consecutive barriers will be fined for 30 seconds.

15-  Any robot that passes from the same side of 3 consecutive barriers will be fined for 50 seconds.

16-  Any robot that passes from the same side of 4 consecutive barriers will be given the chance to start over the race again. If the same thing occurs, the robot will be disqualified.

17-  Any robot has the right to violate the 14th rule just for two times and 15th rule just for 1 time. The robots exceeding these limits will be given the chance to start over the race again. If the limit exceeding occurs again, the robot will be disqualified.

18-  Any robot that comes back to the starting point turning not around “the turn obstacle” but around any of barriers, will be given the second chance to begin the race. If robot repeats the same mistake, it will be disqualified.

19-  Any robot that gives harm to track will be excluded from the race. (e.g. crashing the barriers and ripping it.)

20-  After the name of the robot is announced, the owner of the robot will have 3 minutes to come to the place of race. If the owner does not come, the robot will be disqualified.

21-  After the drawing of track, no addition to or subtraction from robots that are taken under surveillance can be done. Robots will not be given to the owner, till its time for racing comes.

22-  No time will be given to the the owner to fix the robot if there occurs any breakdown or trouble with the robot during the race.

23-  Robots have to be autonomous. The robots that are not aoutonomous will not be taken to the race.

24-  The duration of the race is 5 minutes.

25-  In ordering, finishing time and fines determined by the referees will be taken into consideration.

METU Robotics Society holds its right to make changes in the rules without any justification, when necessary.

Objections to the decisions will be taken into account only in written application form. The written applications are submitted to the organization committee. The committee will meet at the beginning of every hour and discuss the submitted written applications. The final decisions, not to accept any further objections, will be announced as soon as possible.

To Crash and Stop* < Means the robot being unable to move for 15 seconds after crashing the turnstile or any barrier.>

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