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KAIST To Hold Robot Competition

KAIST (President Nam-Pyo Suh) will be holding ‘the 6th Intelligent SoC Robotwar 2007’ and is now receiving online applications at the official web site of the competition, www.socrobotwar.org. Application deadline is May 31, Thursday.

‘Intelligent SoC Robotwar’ is a competition of intelligent robots employing System on Chip (SoC) that commenced in 2002.

In the competition, participants will embody their ideas in the same intelligent robot platforms and robot bodies, and how well the ideas are embodied will decide winners.

In the part of tank robot competition (left photo), tank-like robots attack enemy robots by using laser, which demands technologies of scene analysis, radio communication and speech recognition. Hence, a variety of recognition algorithms and motion algorithms significantly affect match results.

Taekwon robot competition is a fight competition of two-leg robots. In the competition, robots equipped with scene analysis technologies perceive the location, distance and motion of enemy robots and do motions of attack and defense with no control by operators.

Teams must be made up of two or more persons including undergraduate or graduate students and all teams are entitled to participate in theoretical and practical education on platform boards for robots and intelligent robots. Final winner will be decided through qualifying test, preliminary matches and main matches.

“The most distinct characteristic of this competition is robot’s intelligence takes top priority. It’s not remote control-operated robots but autonomously operating intelligent robots that will make Korean robot-related industries further profitable. Considering that last year, total 138 teams participated in the competition and an award from the Prime Minister was given to the winner, the competition undoubtedly hold the top position among robot-related competitions,” said Hee-Joon You, President of the competition committee and a professor of Electrical Engineering.

Details on the competition are as follows:
1. Purpose
● To foster highly specialized technicians in the field of SoC through the embodiment of intellectual robots adopting SoC
● To pave foundations for the enhancement of national competitiveness through the vitalization of IT-SoC and intellectual robot fields, next-generation growth momenta

2. Introduction
(1) Sponsor: Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy
(2) Organizer: KAIST
(3) Competition parts: SoC tank robot competition, SoC taekwon robot competition
(4) Rules of matches
① SoC Tank Robot competition
- 4M X 4M square field, 2 to 2 survival format
- Three three-minute rounds per game (Winning two out of three rounds is required to win a game)
- 5-minute long intermission

② SoC Taekwon Robot competition
- Octagonal field with a radius of 2 M, 1 to 1 match format
- Three three-minute rounds per game (Winning two out of three rounds is required to win a game)
- Four downs per round make a loss, In the case of less-than-four-time downs within three minutes, attack points decide winner.
- 5-minute long intermission
 
(5) Schedule
April 1 thru May 31, 2007 Application
July, 2007         Orientation
August, 2007         Qualifying test
August, 2007         Preliminary matches
October18 - 21, 2007 Main matches

(6) Contact
Web site: http://www.socrobotwar.org
Person in charge: Min-Hee Shin, 042-869-8937, maiwind@kaist.ac.kr