INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KSHITIJ 2010

KHARAGPUR

ROBOCOP
INTRODUCTION
"In 2008 terrorists launched more than ten co-ordinated shooting and bombing
attacks across India's largest city, Mumbai. This day, now known as 26/11, saw the
Taj hotel besieged by attackers using innocent civilians as their shields. Amongst
them were prominent figures including Members of European Parliament. In the
wee hours of 29th November, the National Security Guard launched Operation
Black Tornado to flush out the remaining assailants.

“The death toll for the events of 26/11? 166 victims (civilians and
armed forces) andonly nine terrorists.”

The events played out in Mumbai on that fateful day depict the
risk that law enforcement officials in our country have to face.
While their bravado and courage is irreplaceable, having a robot take the risks for
them is a welcome idea, any day.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
The problem statement is to build a fully automated robot that acts as a law
enforcer. This enforcer must navigate a set of rooms and apprehend and kill
criminals (red) and avoid hostages (green). Points will be given on the basis of
number of criminals killed and number of hostages avoided. As with all anti-
terrorist operations this will be done under cover of darkness.

THE TASK
The task is to build a completely autonomous robot (henceforth referred to as
enforcer) which will have to navigate through rooms which will have
cylindrical/cubical shaped models in red and green.
The red models (henceforth referred to as criminal) represent
criminals.
The green models (henceforth referred to as civilian/hostage)
represent hostages.

The enforcer must "Apprehend / Kill" criminals while "Saving" hostages. Each
room has multiple criminals and civilians.
Participants are scored on the number of criminals killed the
number of hostages saved and the time of run. Here,
"Apprehending/Killing" is defined as knocking down a
criminal. The criminal entity must be lying on the ground, with the face of
the entity which was in contact with the ground earlier no longer remaining
so(condition(1)).

Saving hostages is defined as leaving a hostage standing. The

enforcer may touch or push the hostage so long as the face of
the entity originally on the ground remains so(condition(2)).

Dead criminals rolling on the ground may still kill hostages.

Civilian and Criminal Defined

 Civilian Saved, Criminal Killed

The event will take place at night from 6PM to 6 AM (or until first
light). The arena will be lighted from above . The lighting used shall be a halogen
lamp with diffuse lighting . Details of the same as well as pictures of the lighted
arena shall be put up closer to the event date.
Note: Shadows may be formed due to lighting.

ROBOT SPECIFICATIONS
The enforcer must be fully autonomous, i.e. No manual
intervention is allowed once the run is started.

Dimensions
The enforcer should have maximum dimensions of (0.75m X
0.75m X 1m)(l X b X h). The dimensions may however exceed after the beginning of
the run.
Processing

Processing may take place on a machine that is not onboard

the enforcer (i.e. off board processing).

Participants have to ensure that the wire does not touch any
of the cylinders and the wire remains slack throughout the run.

On touching the door of the next room the clock is

stopped and the points for that room is calculated. The participant and his
robot are then allowed to move into
the next room

Power Supply

A fixed 220V power supply will be provided by the Robotix

Team. Participants may choose to use their own power sources.

The power source used need not be on board the enforcer.

Mechanism For Apprehending Criminals

Participants are free to choose their own mechanisms for

apprehending criminals.

Any mechanism used should not involve human intervention

in any form.

Mechanisms which damage the arena may be disqualified and

teams requested to resort to alternative mechanisms.
 Model of the Robot

ARENA

SPECIFICATIONS

The Rooms

There will be three/four rooms with each room of dimensions

(9m X 5m).

The room will be open from above as shown in the figure.

Each room will have four walls and two doors.

The walls will be made of cloth hung over bamboo which will
be black in colour. The height of the walls will be (1.2 m).
 There will be more than one room and entry to the next room
will be through a door.

The door will be made of cloth which will be blue in color (An
exact shade of the same will be uploaded closer to the event date ). The cloth
shall be hanging from the top (i.e. fixed at the top and free from the other
three sides) and the enforcer can pass it by simply pushing through to the
other side. The Width of the door will be 1.2 m and height same as that of
the wall.

The doors will be painted black on the opposite side so as not

to confuse the enforcer.

The floor of the room will be asphalt / concrete (pictures of

the same shall be uploaded later).

The floor will contain a white line joining the entrance and the
exit doors of the rooms as shown in the figure.

The width of the line will be (20 cm). The line may be of any
shape.

The Criminals And Hostages

The criminals and hostages will be made up of cardboard cylinders
/ cuboids, the criminals will be red in colour while the hostages will be green. Their
height will be 1.2m and diameter will be 15cm.The criminals and hostages will be
placed at a distance less than 2 m away from the line.

PICTURES
 Arena Pic 1

Arena Pic 2

RULES
GENERAL

The event will take place in two stages, qualification and

Final.

The qualification stages will involve lesser number of rooms

andgreater spacing of criminals and civilians. The Final
round may contain obstacles in the room which may cover the criminals or
hostages from some angle. The color of the obstacles(if any) will be black
and the maximum height will be 0.5(m).

Each team will be given three runs during qualification stages

and five runs during the Final Stages. The best score will be selected out of the
same.

A team may have a maximum of 4 members, with no two

teams having any common member.

The maximum time allowed for the bot to clear each room is
7 minutes in the qualifying round; the time may be different for the final
rounds.

Once the robot reaches the door to the other room the clock
is frozen for one minute and the robot (and the participant if
he is carrying the laptop behind the robot) is allowed into the
following room.

The bot must not cause any damage to the arena. In event of
any damage, the team would be liable for disqualification.

Manual intervention of any kind will not be allowed during the

run of the bot, the teams may however hold the laptops in
 their hands, which will not be considered as manual
intervention. Only one participant will be allowed to hold the laptop and enter
the arena.

Points for standing hostages will not be added until the bot
has left the room.

SCORING

Each Criminal killed is worth 100 points and the no. of

criminals killed in a room is taken as K.

Each Hostage left alive adds a bonus of 20 points and

increases the multiplier taken as H.

The time taken in minutes is measured as T. The time is

taken from the start in a room till the time when the enforcer touches the door
to the next room.

In case if the participant needs to restart the bot, 40 points

will be deducted as penalty from the total score for each restart.

Thus the formula for score from a room is:

Room Score= [(K×100×H)/T+ 20×H - Penalty]

Thus if none of the criminals or Hostages are standing, the

total score will be zero. If the enforcer exits without killing any criminals the
score will only be 20*H.

The total score is taken as the sum total of the scores from all
the rooms.
DISCLAIMER

All teams must submit a copy of their final running code to

the organizers.

The Robotix Team retains the right to publish these codes as

it deems fit in electronic and printed forms, with due credit to participants.

The Decision of the Robotix Team is FINAL AND BINDING.

FORUM
In case of any doubts regarding the rules of this event, feel
free to post on the forum of our website
http://robotix.in/forum

REGISTRATION
For registration, visit http://www.ktj.in/register/reg.php

HEAD
Rahul Das
rahul@robotix.in
+91 - 9775552399