Finally back on my blog! Just some updates to start off. Team Raffles has represented Singapore in Robocup International 2011 in the Lightweight A Secondary category. The journey was generally smooth sailing and ended with us attaining Individual as well as Superteam second. This is, by our record, the best showing from Singapore in this category. Throughout the round robin stages, we remained undefeated and had a goal ratio of 209 scored to 6 conceded. This included victories over Australia by a scoreline of 58-2 to games as close as 1-0 in the case of SPQR, a team from Rome. In the Individual finals, we met strong opponents in Luwan Senior High School. Winning that encounter 3-2, we proceeded into the finals facing Cenatax Light. Having some technical difficulties, we trailed 5-0 in the first half. However, we managed to get the second robot running in the second half and pulled back 2 goals. Unfortunately, that only gave us a 5-2 score line overall and allowed us to attain second position. In the Superteam semifinals, we were up against Iranian team Fast and Smart. We eased past this match with a score of 8-2 and allowed us to proceed to the finals However, we were up against Cenatax Light again the finals. This time, we lost 5-1 and hence clinched the second position.This is just the second time that our School is participating in the international round of Robocup and attaining 2 awards was indeed a surprise for us. However, we have found some areas of improvement and plan to incorporate these details for the robot participating in the national round next year. Here is the robot:
This shows the processor as well as some sensors.
This is the font view of our robot.
Currently, I am working on the National Junior Robotics Competition (NJRC) . This competition selects the best teams to represent Singapore in the World Robotics Olympiad (WRO). The team did well in the presentation preliminary rounds, getting into the finals of the Best Mechanical Design Award as well as the Best Research Award. The challenge week starts on Thursday next week and we will hope to achieve a good result there. The awards for the presentation will also be announced during the prize presentation.
Another new project would be the Raffles Robotics blog. This will provide updates on competitions as well as general announcements and will be the means that our club reaches out to the public. The link can be found here: rafflesrobotics.blogspot.com.
I will conclude this post and proceed on to work on the entrepreneurship as well as booth design awards for NJRC.
Thanks for visiting!
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