ROBOCON 09...

10th of may marks the end of robocon stuff to me. Final champions of ABU robocon 09 is MMU.

For a new team, fresh players like us, i think we had tried our best and mark our trail to quarter final. Not bad...but we cab do better!!

From what i see, ROBOCON is an great platform to apply mechanical skills, perform mechatronics application and programming all real time possibilities. MMU is really a great team, you can see their performance is unbeatable...Records and records breaking. They deserved to represent Malaysia to Tokyo.

However there is a flaw in Robocon 09. A all time favourite UTM is withdrawned from the contest. They were caught in video that they practise using the game field earlier for hours while other teams were schedule to test run for merely 10 minutes.

They are irrespected by majority of the spectators and hence they withdrawed the game. Personally i felt its a lost for not having UTM in this game field. They were the giants and they were the only team that able the treat MMU.

Well...a mistake pay a lot.

Back to robocon, i decided to pay a visit to MMU robots. I saw alot of great electronics application that implemented by the students. they were good and i can see their creativeness and hardwork. This is what i am looking for. The application of engineering knowledge. Through doing projects, we will realised what we know is limited and after we learn more than just from reading books.

So, now on. I was eager to equipped myself with all kinds of engineering knowledge, mechnical and electronics... These two are unseparatable...Machine needs a good mechanism and intelligent program. There are a lot more to learn....

Okay, lets take a lot of USM robots. The first one is called traveller. Traveller need to be stabil were it boards on cargo. I was in traveller team. We have a few generations and this is our latest one. I was the programmer of traveller. I need to utilised power window, Infra red sensor and servo motors in this robots and program to make it autonomous.

the second one is called autonomous carrier. It is design to do line tracking and carry traveller to the goal zone. while the third one is manual carrier. It is manually operated by a player in game field to support the carrier travellering around.

Seeing the robots performing task as programmed is the greatest please of a programmer.