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PENS builds best robots 6th year in a row
Students from Surabaya State Polytechnic of Electronics (PENS) have once again proved to be the nation's best robot builders, winning the national robot competition for the sixth year in a row
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Students from Surabaya State Polytechnic of Electronics (PENS) have once again proved to be the nation's best robot builders, winning the national robot competition for the sixth year in a row.
Sixteen university teams made it to the final round of the two-day 2008 Indonesian Robot Contest (KRI) held at the University of Indonesia campus at Depok over the weekend.
The contest culminated in a final match Sunday between the Jump Be team from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS)-PENS and the Khil G team from Brawijaya University in Malang.
Jump Be's four waist-high robots managed to secure two boxes and a few orange rubber balls placed at different heights, giving them the total winning score of 30.
Brawijaya's Khil G managed to secure 12 points from several rubber balls, making them the runners-up.
PENS-ITS also won the award for the best algorithm.
The prize for best design went to the team from the ITS undergraduate study program, and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta won the award for best innovation. Hasanuddin University, which scored 60 in the second elimination round, won the award for the team with the highest score.
Twenty-four teams from 24 universities originally participated in the 2008 KRI after being selected earlier at the regional level.
The theme of this year's contest was "Govinda", a traditional Indian game in which children must retrieve objects from a certain height.
The theme was chosen to align with that of the 2008 Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Robocon in Pune, India, in August. As the national champion, PENS-ITS will represent Indonesia and compete with 20 teams from other countries in the international robot contest.
PENS-ITS was the runner-up in the 2007 ABU Robocon in Vietnam, but won first prize in the 2001 contest in Japan.
In addition to the KRI, 37 university teams competed in the 2008 Indonesian Smart Robot Contest (KRCI), which focuses on robots' special intelligence.
This year's KRCI was themed "firefighting robots", the same theme as that of the annual Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest organized by Trinity College in the United States.
Winners of the KRCI are expected to compete in the 2009 firefighting robot contest at Trinity College.
The 2008 KRCI was divided into four categories. Indonesian Computer University (Unikom) from Bandung won both the wheeled robots senior division and the swarm robots expert division. The footed robots senior division was won by Riau Caltex Polytechnic and the single robot expert division was won by PENS-ITS.
Unikom received the prize for the best algorithm, Surabaya University won the prize for best innovation and University of Indonesia won for best spirit.
In total, 38 universities and one firm took part in the 2008 KRI and KRCI.
