GAME CATEGORIES - 2004
Regular Categories
Junior League (under 12)
Challenge League (13-18) Robo League Categories
(over 19)

(for Adult including Univ. Students)
Robot Line Tracing
Stair Climbing Robot (Up only)
Robot Survival Game
Legged Robot Obstacle Race
Stair Climbing Robot
FIRA Robot Soccer (13-18)
Vision-Robot Rescue Operation (13-18)
Robo Basketball
Robo Boxing
Robo Marathon
Robo BalancingBeam
Robo Dancing
Robo WeightLifting
RoboSoccer ( MiroSot 5vs.5)
RoboSoccer (Hurosot)
Creativity Categories

(Under 12 / 13-18 / Over 19)
- Robotics @ Space
- Special Theme (will be announced on-the-spot)

   Robo Marathon
Mission
The mission of Robo Marathon is to design a wheel based robot hardware and software algorithm that is capable of finding the short-cut and managing speed and energy efficiently to finish the 42.195m marathon track. Track guide lines and landmark information will be provided on the game floor.
Game Rules
All the participating robots need to be set up to go and be collected at the competition site half an hour before the competition starts.
As the competition starts, players are only allowed to turn on the power switch and locate the robot at the starting line under the judge¡¯s direction.

<Play Ground Diagram>

-------------------------   Starting Line
[ ll RR ll RR ll RR ll RR ll RR ll ]
-------------------------- Black colored Partition for sensory start
-------------------------- Second Starting Line
[ ll RR ll RR ll RR ll RR ll RR ll ]
A preliminary round is held to decide seed allocation.
A maximum of 10 qualified robots will get the seed, and the higher scored robots will get the better positions at the starting line.
Robots with no seed will start at the second starting line, which is marked at 1m50cm behind from the first starting line.
A black painted bar will be located at 2cm ahead from each of the starting lines and will be lifted by staffs as starting signal. Therefore all the participatiing robots should have a front IR sensor to remotley sense the existance of the black bar to get starting signal.
No part of the robot body can cross the starting line prior to the starting signal.
The robots will get positional information using bar code type countable lines, and by counting the number of horizontal crossing lines which are marked 50 centimeters before each corner.
  <Diagram>
Robot Specifications
Maximum size of 12cm(W) by 12cm(L)
No battery limitation
Robots should have at least one set of front IR sensor and side sensors at both of left and right side to avoid wall and other competing robots while they are running but type and number of sensors are not limited
Control: fully autonomous
Evaluation
The fastest robot will win - the robot completing the distance of 42.195metres in the shortest time will be the winner
If the robot shows no sign of moving for more than 10 seconds, the robot will be disqualified.
If none of robots complete the course, the robot closest to the finishing line will be placed first.