Robotic Project

Objective
Game Pieces
Scoring
Consideration/Restrictions

Objective

• The objective is to design and build a remotely controlled device to unload supplies from an ASV and place them in a storage bin at the Martian base within a 3-minute time limit.

Game Pieces

• Twelve 16 oz. bottles with gold caps (fuel tanks).
• Twenty silver boxes (food).
• Four gold boxes (medical supplies).

Scoring

Points are scored based on the number and type of game pieces in scoring position in a team's scoring bin at the end of a match.

• Boxes are removed and placed within the scoring bin.
• Bottles are removed and placed within the scoring bin.

Bonus points are awarded when a team successfully scores with the following combinations of game pieces:

• 75 bonus points will be awarded for scoring: a) at least one fuel tank, b) at least one equipment box, and c) at least one food box.
• An additional 50 bonus points will be awarded for scoring at least one medical supply box in addition to the combination described above.

The position of the boxes and bottles at the end of the match decides whether or not points are awarded. Any box or bottle in contact or extending over the top surface of the scoring bin can no longer can be used for scoring.

Considerations/Restrictions

• Machines may access the cargo bay using any of the four ramps.
• Machines may retrieve game pieces located on the surface of hte cargo bay or the playing field.
• Game pieces may be retrieved from the cargo bay by a machine located on the surface of the playing field.
• Game pieces may be moved from the cargo bay to the surface of the playing field through any action or process that does not damage them.
• Any part of a machine that becomes detached (accidentally or on purpose) ceases to be part of that machine. A detached part of a machine is defined as the part ofo a machine that does not inclued the battery and has no physical connection to, or contact with, the portion of the machine that contains the battery. Machines may retrieve game pieces in contact with or contained within a detached part of a machine.
• Any game piece not in scoring position may be removed from a scoring bin by another machine.
• Machines may not contact a game piece that is in scoring position in another team's scoring bin, even if it is in contact with or contained within a detached part of a machine. In addition, moving the detached part of another machine to remove a game piece from scoring position is not allowed.
• Machines may not attempt to retrieve or touch game pieces in the grasp of or stored on another machine.
• Machines may not retrieve any game pieces that have touched any surface outside of the perimeter of the playing field.
• Machines may not drive into any scoring bin.
• Machines may not drive on the cargo container in the center of the cargo bay.
• It is considered damaging to the game pieces to use a mechanism that penetrates their surface.
• The fuel tanks (bottles) may not be launched through the air. However, they can be dropped.

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