The National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition is a student robotics competition designed to encourage development and innovation in the field of robotics. NIARC features competing student teams representing the top universities from across Australia and New Zealand, with each team developing an autonomous robot within 7 months, ultimately competing in a live competition at …
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How to make an autonomous vehicle – the 2016 Droid Racing Challenge
The Droid Racing Challenge recently hosted by QUT Robotics Club was an event designed to inspire students and general public alike about the potential of robotic vision. Results and winners were announced with a selection of media from the event in the Droid Racing Challenge Wrap-up. This article is a companion piece highlighting the technical …
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Droid Racing Challenge Wrap-up
Droid Racing Challenge Project Page How to make an autonomous vehicle – the 2016 Droid Racing Challenge The task set by the QUT Robotics Club for the inaugural Droid Racing Challenge (DRC) was not a trivial one – to design a ground based vehicle capable of autonomously navigating around a track, other vehicles, and obstacles, …
QUT Droid Racing Challenge 2016!
The Droid Racing Challenge is right around the corner! Teams from QUT, UQ, Griffith, and UNSW will compete next Wednesday 29th of June. Autonomous droids will race around the Kidney Lawn at QUT Gardens Point round-robin style, facing off against each other using robotic vision to navigate their way around the race course and obstacles. …
News for May
Droid Racing Challenge, workshops, AGM The Droid Racing Challenge is just over a month away now, on the 29th of June from 10am – 3pm around the Kidney Lawn at QUT Gardens Point. All spectators are welcome. Self-driving vehicles from eight different university teams will be competing in races around a specially designed race course. …
Droid Racing Challenge Update
UPDATE 15/3: Due to high levels of interest, we will be limiting the challenge to 20 teams. The first 20 teams to register before April 1st will be accepted. Please use the registration form on the webpage. The main aspect of this challenge is computer vision, and we therefore do not require all mechanical components …
Last Chance for Mars Robot Challenge!
This is the final week for signing up to the MathWorks Mission On Mars Robot Challenge. We will be closing the sign up form and contacting interested students on Monday March 21st.
2016 Workshops
Workshops for semester 1 2016 start this Friday 11th of March at 4pm, and will continue every Friday after that. This week’s workshop will be in S517, but check here or the facebook group before each workshop because the location is likely to change week to week.
Projects Added and Updated
We’ve added another project to the list for this year, the Mathworks Mission On Mars Robot Challenge 2016. This is a software challenge, where you optimize a robot’s behaviour in simulation, and if you do well you get to go to France and load it on an actual robot! All projects have been updated with more …
Welcome Night Photos
The Robotics Club welcome night had a great turnout, with most in attendance finding it worthwhile, even if just for the free pizza :). More information about the nights topics can be found around this website, particularly information about the projects we are running this year. Remember to sign up on QUT OrgSync, https://orgsync.com/login/QUT.
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