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2008 Arizona Intel Robotics Challenge

Date and Time: Friday, April 11, 2008 at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Local Time (9:00 PM - 12:00 AM UTC)

Location: Arizona State University Brickyard 221 - 699 S. Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA | Google Maps

Description:

The Arizona Robotics Challenge (ARC) aims at building a university-industry cooperation model through an annual event that consists of a series of educational and developmental activities, including learning, coaching, cooperation, problem solving, prototype developing, and competition in selected areas of computer applications. In the Challenge 2008 experiment, Intel offered project requirement, a faculty member builds and advises a team of senior capstone students to implement the requirement.

A theme of challenge will be defined for each year. For the 1st Arizona Robotics Challenge 2008, the theme is building security robots for autonomous and remote commanded patrolling of office environments. The system consists of one or multiple robots, wirelessly connected to a remote monitor station. The robots can patrol the building autonomously or commanded through the remote monitor station.

Three teams of students in their ASU senior capstone projects and two teams of students in their UoA senior capstone projects have participated in the Challenge 2008. They will demonstrate their security robots in the 2008 Competition, which will be held in an indoor office environment with a number of cubicles, as shown in the map on the back the flyer.

The Arizona Robotics Challenge 2008 is sponsored by Intel, in cooperation with ASU and UoA.