Annual Robotics

Competition
ARC
THIRD YEAR
 Introduction
The competition started in 2015 and included only one category: Sumo
Robots.

Last year the competition included another category: line following robots,
and the Sumo Robot category was divided into two sub-categories: Open
and Regular.

This year, the competition consists of four categories: Sumo Robots, Line
Following Robots, Football Competition, and the Projects Category.
Video From Last Years
Competition
Football Competition
 Game Rules
Each team consists of two robots.

The objective of the game is to place the ball in the

opponents goal.

The robots will be controlled via remote control.

Dimensions of the field:

Width of goal:
Example
 Competition rules
First stage: Groups of 4.

Second Stage: One group of 5.

Each game, two different robots will be assigned together in a

team.

The team that finishes first in the second stage wins the
competition.
 Competition rules
Each robot of the team gets 3 points for a win, 1 point for a
tie, and zero points for a loss.

In case of draw in points, the two robots play a penalty

shootout to decide the winner.
 What is a Robot

A Robot is any man-made machine that can perform work or other

actions normally performed by humans, either automatically or by
remote control.
 What kinds of Robots are
Military
there? Educational

Industrial
Entertainment
 Parts of a Robot

Mechanical
Component The Brain

Sensor
 Parts of the Robot well use

Sensors
Microcontroller
{The Brain}

Mechanical
Component
Whats in the mBot Box
How to assemble the mBot
 Lets discover mBlock
Robots (and computers in general) are stupid, they know nothing and
can learn nothing unless you teach them.

The mBots Brain needs to be taught what to do.

mBlock is the Software we will be using to Program the mBot.

Programming is the way we humans can talk with machines.

 Install mBlock
To install mBlock you can:

Either use the cd provided with the Robot

Or Download the software online:

www.mblock.cc/download/
 mBlocks Interface
Toolbar
Scripts
Stage Zone

Sprites
Zone Command
Blocks
Toolbar
Command Blocks
 Graphical Programming
There are two ways of programming: Coding and Graphical
Programming
 Graphical Programming
The software we will be using, mBlock, is a graphical programming
software.

Which means that our program will consist of blocks called command
Blocks.

We build our program by dragging and dropping blocks in their

desired places.
 Next session
In the next session we will:

Connect the robot to the computer.

Learn about some Command Blocks.

Learn about the components of the robot (Sensors and Motors).

Execute some activities.

Thank you for listening
See you next time