Designing the 1993 Robot Competition

The competition, rules, coordinating the setup and Technologies, showed off a unique which attracted teams from administration of the contest, and global-positioning system using a many of the top mobile robotics trying to cope with the needs of the robot-mounted revolving laser and research laboratories in the United 15 teams that put so much energy three or more stationary receivers. States (see side bar), was first proposed into their entries. This article reports Still, many teams suffered frustrating by Thomas Dean and held at some of the experiences I had in failures in hardware and especially the 1992 NCAI conference. Dean's helping to design and run the contest software, leading to a general lack concept was to further the research and some reflections, drawn of sleep and noticeable exhaustion into the skills such robots from post mortem abstracts written among the contestants by Monday need--sensing, interpretation, planning, by the competitors, on the relation of night, the day before the contest. I and reacting--by bringing the contest to current research efforts know this from personal experience: together interested parties in a cooperative in mobile robotics.