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.

Scoring

The competition will be held at a specific time (to be announced closer to the time) during the CLAWAR 2004 conference in Madrid. A panel of experts will carry out the judging of the competition, to award points to each robot, and ultimately the prizes to the winning designers. They will endeavour to be both impartial and fair, allowing all entrants the opportunity to demonstrate fully all the features of their machines, but time will be limited and selected at the judges’ discretion. Each individual robot will accumulate points based upon a set of criteria (detailed below), and also upon which of the tasks are attempted. The tasks have each been assigned a certain ‘weighting’, which will be taken into consideration when allocating points to individual machines. This is because they progressively pose increasing levels of difficulty to the machine developers. The judges will use following categories as a basis for allocating credits to each individual machine.