Robomo Line Following Competition
(I wanted to share this sooner but I had other life distractions.)
Pololu products dominated our competition and won it by a large margin. We put a time penalty on purchased kit robots to prevent someone from buying a 3pi or equivalent and beating up the homemade robots. This plan worked for us to get more homemade line following creations. Which makes for more creativity in the designs.
Here’s the results:
Name:
Run Time:
Penalty’s:
Total Time:
Silent Bob
3 min 17 sec
3 sec
3 min 20 sec
Jay
12 min
0 sec
12 min
DF Round
1 min 14sec
10sec
1 min 24 sec
Skull LF
2 min 29 sec
0sec
2 min 29 sec
Yellow Rat
1 min 19 sec
10 sec
1 min 29 sec
Growler
40 sec
10 sec
50sec
Chief Knock A Homer
2 min
3 sec
2 min 3 sec
Spidy LF
2 min 10 sec
3 sec
2 min 13 sec
Zumo
49sec
10 sec
59 sec
DF Rover
1 min 40 sec
16 sec
1 min 56 sec
Screaming Dummy
2 min 4 sec
0 sec
2 min 4 sec
RBS Tank
1 min 43 sec
0 sec
1 min 43 sec
FCLF
1 min 10 sec
22 sec
1 min 32 sec
POS
1 min 2 sec
10 sec
1 min 12 sec
3pi DNF
40 sec
10sec
50 sec
Yellow
1 min 21 sec
10sec
1 min 31 sec
Cousin It
1 min 2 sec
0 sec
1 min 2 sec
Mark 1
28 sec
0 sec
28 sec
Mark 2
19 sec
0 sec
19 sec
Stitches
38 sec
10 sec
48 sec
1Pi
2 min 7 sec
6 sec
2 min 13 sec
Tethered USB
1 min 10 sec
0 sec
1 min 10 sec
Pocket Bot.IO
1 min 4 sec
0 sec
1 min 4sec
Zbot
1 min 3 sec
0 sec
1 min 3 sec
Magician
59 sec
0 sec
59 sec
TruckBot
DNF
RoadRunner
DNF
Gobbit
1 min 2 sec
0 sec
1 min 2 sec