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CLAWAR 2004. Madrid

Student Competition

The fourth edition of the climbing robots student competitions will also be organised during the conference.

Here you can find a small photo gallery, showing images of competitions in previous editions of CLAWAR conferences.

General Guidelines	Scoring	Points
Prizes	FAQ List	The Wall

Points

The basic requirement of any of the machines is to locomote from the bottom of the vertical wall, to the top, and depending on what the robot is capable of doing, the points for the tasks completed will be allocated as follows

Criteria	Number of Possible Points
The further the robot gets up the wall, the more point that will be awarded	20
If the robots manage to avoid the obstacle by touch (including the sides and the top of the wall)	5
Bonus points for avoidance without contact	5
Bonus for successfully negotiating the 1cm high square barrier at top of the wall	10
If a robot successfully locomotes from the horizontal plane, to the vertical	15
If the robots have the capability of climbing using suction (more versatile)	5
Judges discretion: Novelty Easy of use Level of autonomy/intelligence Speed / time of ascent Versatility - Capability to complete several of the set tasks Simplicity of concept – for commercial manufacture	20

This table is only to be used as a guideline, and there is a certain amount of flexibility in the scoring of the competition that will allow those machines that inspire the judges to be rewarded accordingly.

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