Notice: The competition has been CANCELLED due to the lack of financial support | |||
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control
Conference October 28-30, 2015 - Columbus, Ohio |
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Robotics/Mechatronics Control Challenge for Undergraduate Students | |||
Desciption Team Requirements Procedure Prizes Important Dates Organizers |
Note: MathWorks will provide complimentary software to participating teams (see below) | |||
Challenge Description | |||
The
Robotics/Mechatronics challenge will be
organized as part of DSCC'15, which is the primary event of the ASME
Dynamic
Systems and Control Division (DSCD). The challenge consists of
designing and
building a robotics/mechatronics device, either with a specific
application, or
as a laboratory demo. The device should have at least two degrees of
freedom
and some form of sensing to facilitate an autonomous operation. The
cost of
building the device should be within a total budget of $300. The call for proposals in pdf is posted here. |
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Team Requirements | |||
The team should
consist of three undergraduate students
from US universities, while one faculty member can advise multiple
teams. The
student team members are required to become student members of the ASME
Dynamic
Systems and Control Division before receiving any support for the
project and
taking part in the challenge. |
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Procedure | |||
Potential
participants from US universities are invited
to send a brief description of their projects to the organizers. The
submitted
document should include the project title, its description and
necessary
sketches. It should list the team members, their e-mail contact
information and
the name and contact of a faculty member advising the team. Following the
review of project descriptions, 5-10 teams
will be invited to participate based on the quality of projects and
available
resources. Each invited team will receive up to $300 to build their
device and
up to $160 for the production of their poster. Each team member will
receive
the necessary amount of money to cover the DSCC student registration
fee and
some money (funding permitting) towards their travel costs.
Before the
DSCC'15 conference, each team should record a
video of their working device and send it to the organizers. This will
serve as
the evidence that the teams have their device, or demo ready for the
conference.
At the conference
site, the students will exhibit the
poster describing their project and show the working device. If the
device, or
demo requires a laptop computer, it needs to be provided by the team. A
jury
composed of DSCC'15 participants will evaluate and rank the teams based
on the
poster presentation, the performance of the device during the live
demonstration, and the novelty of the device.
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Prizes | |||
Certificates
along with the cash prizes of the following
amounts will be awarded to the three top-ranked teams:
First-ranked
team: $900 |
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Important Dates | |||
- Project
description by March 2, 2015 (Tentative) - Video by
October 10, 2015 (Tentative) - Demonstration
at DSCC-October 2015 (the challenge will
be organized on one of the conference days) |
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Organizers | |||
Dejan
Milutinović, UC Santa Cruz, CA, e-mail:
dejan at soe dot ucsc dot edu |
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MathWorks will provide complimentary software to teams participating in
the Robotics/Mechatronics Control Challenge for Undergraduate Students
as a part of the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. Student teams
will receive access to MATLAB and Simulink software for developing
their control algorithms and deploying the algorithms to
supported hardware platforms. The Faculty Advisor for your team should fill out
this form to request software. It can take up to 3 weeks to process the
request. For questions or further details, please contact: Learning Basic Mechatronics Concepts Using the Arduino Board and MATLAB Programming the Arduino with Simulink |