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Student Competition The fourth edition of the climbing robots student competitions will also be organised during the conference.
General Guidelines The aim of CLAWAR’s annual climbing competition is to encourage and challenge students from many different areas to design and develop small climbing machines that are able to locomote themselves up different vertical surfaces. The rules are fairly flexible, in terms of how the students tackle the wall, but there will be extra credit given to robots exhibiting features that are novel and have extra ‘useful’ features, such as some intelligent capability or being able to translate from a horizontal surface to a vertical one. The climbing robot’s design needs to be autonomous, carry the appropriate sensors and locomotion control systems on-board and should be able to negotiate a variety of arbitrary shaped obstacles placed randomly on the vertical wall. The autonomy requirement does not necessarily apply that the power supply should be on-board. The climbing competition will be conducted using just one wall. However, the wall is designed in such a way that several different features of the climbing machines can be tested, and should challenge the skill and ingenuity of their designers to overcome as many of the problems as possible. The challenges set out are as follows:
Dimensions and technical details of the walls are given here, where sizes of the climbing machine can be estimated due to the dimensions of the gaps through which the machine needs to pass. In any event the robots should not exceed 30cm in size. The wall will be made of a ferrous metal to accommodate magnetic adhesion, but it will also be flat and smooth enough to also allow for suction attachment.
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