Goal of the contest

Remotely navigate a robot on a battlefield and control the robot to defuse a bomb.

Your equipment

A robot: Any and all robots are allowed in this competition. However, we will provide a programmable (GoLang), hexapod robot for all participants in this contest.

The battlefield: We’re going easy on your robot. It just needs to be able to: Climb stairs: 4 inches in height, 0.8 inches in height Mind the gap / hurdle Walk across a pool of death (i.e. ping pong balls) Go through a tunnel with night vision Defuse the bomb



3-D rendering of the battlefield

Battlefield dimensions:

2 meters x 2 meters

Width: 0.5 meters throughout, except for the horizontal hurdle area

Tunnel: 0.5 meters long, 0.5m wide, and 0.3m height

Hurdle: 8cm high and 50cm long, with a ground that is 35cm wide

Ball pool: 0.5 x 0.5 meters square pool, with a 4cm fence for the balls

Do you and your robot have what it takes to defuse a bomb and save humanity at Defcon?!!

Rules of the game:

Contestant (or team) has ten minutes to defuse the bomb before it goes off.

Contestant or the robot may not damage the field setup.

Contestant may not physically touch the robot nor the field once the robot is on the field.

Who gets what

There will be a ranking board on site, the fastest 10 players will be awarded at the end of the contest.

HEXA SPECS

HEXA is approximately 5 inches high and 20 inches wide

It has an unbounded 360-degree-endless-spin head with 70-degree tilt

Each of its 6 legs has 3 degrees of freedom

Camera with night vision capability

3-axis accelerometer

Infrared transmitter

Laser based sensor distance measuring

Controller: In order to remotely control the robot, we developed an app based on MIND (a developer platform for robots) Contestants can choose to use this app as a default controller, and use it to activate different functionalities. Contestants could also develop their own ‘Elite’ version of a controller since MIND is an open platform. You can learn more about MIND here: https://www.vincross.com/developer/introduction/mind-overview.



More information about the robot we provide can be found at https://www.vincross.com/hexa