IDC Robocon 2007 News

Team Yellow winned IDC2007 !

2007-08-18T17:00:00

BANGKOK - Contest Day

IDC 2007 was concluded by the final match of Yellow and Red.
To win the final, they have to win the first 2 matches.

Yellow and Red, both team's strategy was pretty similar. The bottom robots carry the Puang-Malai to upper robot which has got a long arm to put it on hands.
But they have got different extension mechanism in the arm. Yellow team adopted extension slide. Red team adopted scissor link mechanism.

In the first match of the final, yellow and red, both of team started to lift the Puang-Malai at the exactly same time. However, yellow teams mechanism was faster than red's. Also yellow's control were pretty good enough to win the firsat game.
In the second match, the same situation was happened and Yellow has won the second match as well.

Heat match

2007-08-18T16:00:00

BANGKOK - Contest Day

Sky, Maroon and Green team proceeded and joined into other 5 teams for the heat league held from 2pm.

12 matches were held to decide top 4 teams.
Yellow and Grey from League A, Red and Orange from League B. Those 4 teams goes to semi-final tornament.
Sky team placed in fifth. thet lost controllability of unit and the chance to the semi-final.

Pre-Heat match kicked off!

2007-08-18T15:00:00

BANGKOK - Contest Day
6teams had the heat match. The first match for IDC2007 was kicked off by 6 teams - sky, beige, navy, maroon, pink and green team. These 6 teams placed in lower position in yesterdays seeding contest. 3 winners of these 6 teams can proceed to the heat league.

Heat1 - Sky vs Beige
Sky team has gained win by giving Puang-malai.

Heat2 - Navy vs Maroon
Navy team's link mechanism gave the way to heat league to Maroon team.

Heat3 - Pink vs Green
Despite green teams robots couldn't move esterday, they achieved proceeding.

Heat league will be held from 2pm.

Take off to BITEC

2007-08-18T10:00:00

BANGKOK - Contest Day
With much excitement and a little nervous, all IDC members welcomed the day of IDC2007 contest.

All members met up in the workshop at 9am morning to clean up all the stuffs and to measure machines to make sure thier robots are within the defined limitation. Members left workshop at 10:30 to head to contest place, BITEC.
Chartered bus took about 1hour to BITEC. They were totally looked different than in the trip bus to the rose garden in other day. When we got to BITEC, already many galary were coming for Thailand national science and technology fair 2007.

Contest will be started from 1pm.

[Daily report #10] Seeding contest

2007-08-17T13:00:00

BANGKOK - Day12
To decide tomorrows seed team, Seeding contest was held in todays afternoon.>

On the other hand of excitement, all team's machines were remarked by all instructors. Remarks were considered with machine, strategy and control.

[Daily report #9] Decorate with own colour

2007-08-16T13:00:00

BANGKOK - Day11
2 days left for the contest, today was the last day for workshop day in net.

To get ready for tomorrow's seeding contest, robots of all teams were painted with own team colour. Before painting, all the robots texture looked same but after all make up, each robots had much more individuality in thier looking.
However some teams were careless on painting that they lost part of the function of thier robot because they sprayed even on the parts which are not supposed to be painted. For example, navy team's scissor link mechanism were disbled due to the paint's strong viscocity and friction. Any kind of sliding mechanism are not to be painted.
We got to see how things are going on navy team until tomorrow's seeding contest starts.

[Daily report #8] Open workshop for media

2007-08-15T13:00:00

BANGKOK - Day10
In Chulalongkorn university on wednesday under the scorching sun, the workshop was opened for press
A lot of reporters from TV, radio and newspaper were coming to workshop to gather the information of teams. Thai students in each team gave interview to Thai TV with a little nervous looking. Some of teams demonstrated how thier robots are going to move.

The elephants are larger than you!

2007-08-14T13:00:00

BANGKOK - Day9 Tuesday
Today all of the students took a day off to visit Thailand's 'Rose Garden' to experience some of Thailand's traditional culture.

Here everyone got an opportunity to get there pictures with an elephant and see how elephants are used to help with North Thailand's logging industry. Many of the students then learned how to perform a traditional Thai dance, create pottery, prepare herbs to be used for massages, weave fish out of banana leaves and more!
In the afternoon everyone watched a Thai Cultural show to get a taste of Thailand's rich culture composed of many musical instruments, songs, dances, and martial arts. It was a great time had by all!

[Daily report #7] Regulation update

2007-08-13T12:00:00

BANGKOK - Day8 Monday
We had a big change in the detail part of the rule today.
In the old regulation, it says that machines must not throw objects outside of the field. However, actual field will not have fences around which means it will be pretty hard to prevend objects from drop off the field.

Now the new regulation, it says - Robots are not to push the objects off the field intentionally. The team will be disqualified by dropping more than half of the objects.

[Daily report #6] Robots also celebrate Moms day

2007-08-12T12:00:00

BANGKOK - Day7 Sunday.
Bangkok on sunday welcomed the second day of 3 consecutive holidays. Today was mother's day celebration.

Despite all Thai people are going around to the festival, students were still struggled with machines in workshop to figure out how their robots are going to dedicate flowers to a big mom.

[Daily report #5] Turning point

2007-08-11T12:00:00

BANGKOK - Day6 Saturday
Chulalongkorn university on weekend was released from the weekdays chaos.

During IDC, Students can work on manufacturing only for 8 days so they have just turned the first corner today. (Today was 5th day since workshop started.)
Already, most every team have finished to manufacture the entire first robot and part of the second robot. Most of the first made robots seemed like lower starters which have more difficulties rather than upper starters, such as climbing up the ramp or shooting Puang-Malai.

However, the biggest work left for students is not only to finish the second robots. They also have to tune up both of thier robots and to practice piloting. Maybe in the worst case, they have to rebuild if the things are not going as thier intention.

They would never imagine that next 3 days are going to be a hassle!

[Daily report #4] What are these going to be?

2007-08-10T12:00:00

BANGKOK - Friday, Day5
Robots of each team are now showing their prospects.
Most of the teams have already made chasis of robots 2 days ago. Students are now working on some kind of actuator to handle objects.
Every year, a robot kit includes a special item of the host country. For example, In last year's IDC in Japan, students used bamboo in their robot kits. This year's special item is coconut shell. They are not required to use it, but seeing students use this unusual item will be interesting.

The first break

2007-08-09T13:00:00

BANGKOK - Day4
After thier 3 days hard work on technical review and workshop, they all had a day off today. They broke up into some groups.
Some of them went around the beautiful gland palace, other groups went to resort island and some students rested in thier accomodation.
They broke up all the stress to work again from tomorrow.

[Daily report #3] Manufacturing begins

2007-08-08T15:00:00

BANGKOK - Day3
After yesterdays technical review presentation to the staff, the students went to the workshop to start making there robot for the next 8 days.
Once they got to work, thieir faces changed to intense focus and determination, a complete transformation from the welcome party 2 days ago.

They divided each of the team member's responsibilities - while one makes parts, another drafts technical drawings.
Only for one day, Most of the teams have already finished their work on the chasis, some have part of their robots tested to see whether they can solve their biggest issue - their ability to climb up the steep ramp.

[Daily report #2] Team presentation

2007-08-07T15:00:00

BANGKOK - Tuesday, Day2, was a second big day for students.
Even though they haven't known each other before yesterday, they have to comminucate and cooporate each other to design thier robots, in addition, they had only 1 night for discussion.

11 teams showed up to conference room each by each and secretly presented thier idea.
Almost every team have a common problem: how they make thier robot climb up the steep slope of 45degrees between lake area and ground area.

Welcome to Bangkok! - Welcome party

2007-08-06T19:00:00

BANGKOK - After the students spent several hours brainstorming ideas for how they want to design their robots, it is time to get to know each other better and party! After a few brief comments to welcome the students, everyone enjoyed a large feast while mingling with their fellow participants.

The evenings entertainment was a performance by each participating country. The Brazilians offered an energetic song, the French students came together to recreate the Eiffel Tower, the Japanese team performed some sumo wrestling matches and displayed some origami, the USA students did a chant and did a diablo performance, the Koreans shared a very Powerful song with everyone, and the Thai students introduced everyone to a traditional Thai dance which brought everyone to their feet.

[Daily report #1] The first briefing in team

2007-08-06T14:00:00

BANGKOK - Monday afternoon, Students moved thier place from reception party to the workshop in Chulalongkorn University and they had the first team briefing.

They lost no time right after thier arrival in preparing for team presentation which will be held tomorrow afternoon. They only have this afternoon and tomorrow morning to finalize thier concept, basic design of robots and strategy.

Pingpong balls decided team mates

2007-08-06T11:00:00

BANGKOK - In reception party, Drawings for team groups took place.
44 students are devided into 11teams: Green, Orange, Red, Pink, Maroon, Olive, Beige, Gray, Navy-blue, Sky-blue and Yellow team.

Right after drawings, they changed thier clothes into T-shirt of thier own team colour and first meet up with team mates.
Team page is now on this site.

IDC2007 finally started in Bangkok

2007-08-06T10:00:00

BANGKOK - On Monday morning, IDC 2007 finally kicked off with a reception ceremony at MBK center in Bangkok, Thailand.

There were 44 students from 6 countries, staff and VIP guests invited to the reception ceremony where Thailand's Minister for Science and Technology, Yongyut Yutthawong, opened the competition. After the opening remarks were made, all of the participating students were introduced by country. Student representatives from each country were briefly interviewed gauging there excitement (which is very high) for participating in the competition and what they thought may be their greatest challenge during this competition (communicating when everyone has a different native language).

Once the interviews concluded, the rules of this years competition were shown with a three-dimensional animation. Students then were randomly assigned to their teams and the competition began!

Cute gear is on your T-shirt!!

2007-07-26T18:07:00

TOKYO -- Official T-shirt is now on printing. T-shirt have 11 colour variation. Every members of 11 teams and all staffs will have T-shirt of own team colour. <a href = "http://www-idc.ctrl.titech.ac.jp/idc06/php/index.php?mode=cal_view&no=20060727">T-shirt for last year IDC</a> had Fujiyama(My.Fuji) like chinese character on the back.

More information in Bangkok has been updated

2007-07-20T11:00:00

TOKYO - Chulalongkorn university, the host of IDC2007, has released the newest information of participants and schedule.
Information of 22 new students from France, MIT, USP and Seoul University was added on to list. 12 Thai students are left to complete a list 44 participants.
Also the schedule in Bangkok has been updated.
Students arrive in Bangkok on 4th August and takes a day off to get rid of jet lag. Team grouping will be released in the orientation on 6th.

LINK
Participant's list
Schedule

Selection contest took place in Japan

2007-07-07T11:00:00

TOKYO - Tokyo Techon saturday has held a contest for determine representatives for IDC.

The contest also takes place as the final exhibition of the lecture "Creating Design 1". Over 200 audiences came to watch the match.
In Japan, July 7th is the day of the Star Festival. That is along the old love-story: A girl called Orihime(symbol of Lyra) and a boy called Hikoboshi(symbol of Aquila) fell in love. After thier marriage, they drawn in thier happy life and became too lazy. God sees it and became angry. and finallly God separated 2 of them on the other side of "Milky-way". Since then, Only one day in a year, July 7th, Orihime and Hikoboshi can meet up on the milky-way.

6 representative to go for IDC was selected in this contest.
Participant's list will be sequentially updated on this site.

Robots bless \"Mom\" : IDC2007 regulation

2007-06-21T11:00:00

TOKYO - IDC comittee has released the contest regulation of IDC2007.

This year's theme is "Mom". Contest's title is
- IDC2007 - Thank you,"MEE" (MOM) !

In Thailand, August is cerebration month for thanking Mee(mother in Thai). Thai people give flower wreathes called "puan-marai" for thier mom during this celebration.
After this Thailand custom, Robots derivers flower-like objects to the panel which is imitated mom.

It will be the first attempt in the whole robot contest in the world to use soft material such as flower for the object. Prof, Yamakita - the program chair of IDC comittee, Tokyo Tech- said "Adopting "flower" is going to raise difficulty for desiging robot. But we can expect beautiful contest field we've never seen before in the robocon".

Detail regulation is now on the website.
IDC2007 Regulation

6 countries are participating this year's IDC

2007-06-07T11:00:00

TOKYO - IDC comittee and TAIST have decided the participant's slot for IDC2007 announced on thursday.

In total, 44 university students from 6 countries are coming. They will be split into 11 team consisted of 4 members.
12 university students from Thailand including 6 Chulalongkorn student, 6 selected student.
10 from Japan. 6 are TokyoInstitute of Technology, another 4 are from Tokyo Denki University.
Also 4 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA , 6 from Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 6 from Seoul University and 5 members are selected in France.

IDC2007 certified as Japan-Thailand anniversary event

2007-05-31T11:00:00

TOKYO - IDC comittee on thursday has announced that IDC2007 had been certificated as one of the official event of "120th anniversary of Japan-Thailand Diplomatic relations 2007".

This project is organized by the ministry of foreign affairs of JAPAN, collaborated with Thailand goverment to celebrate anniversary of thier diplomatic relations established in 1887.

Embassy of Japan in Thailand (JAPANESE and THAI)

Thailand is the host country of this year's IDC robocon. The concept of IDC robocon 2007 has matched with expectation of the ministry of foreign affairs who is aiming relationship enlargement along social, industrial, sports and educational events through the anniversary.

Thier catch-phrase in Thai meaning "Smile bridges heart and love".