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Roborama-2024 Robot Gallery

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Here are the robots that participated in DPRG’s Roborama-2024. Click image for larger view.

YAR – Scott Gibson
Wooden Monster – Pat Caron
CrackerJack – Jack Jones
Roz – Jon Hylands
Robo24 – Mike Williamson
PwPw – Mark Reynolds
PiDog – Paul Bouchier
One Trick Pony – Tom Crawford
Number 9 – Scott Gibson
HugoBot – Harold Pulcher
JimBot – Harold Pulcher
GimpDog – Doug Paradis
DougDog – Doug Dodgen
CanMan – Scott Gibson
Barney – Karim Virani

Roborama Results – June 1, 2024

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DPRG held its 28th Roborama competition and its first concurrent international robotics tournament (USA and Canada), with live participation and interactions from both / all venues. The event was successful with epic enthusiasm by all participants and spectators.  Unfortunately, the video was lost due to technical difficulties. However, it is hoped that some run videos and robot pictures may make it to the web site. So, look for further updates. The results are below:

Roborama – 2024 Competition – June 1, 2024

Local: Dallas Maker Space, Carrollton, TX,  Remote: Stoney Creek, Ontario., Canada

Contest Place Contestant Robot Name Score/Time
Quick Trip – Wheeled 1st Mark Reynolds PwPw 7 – 8:86
Remote Quick Trip – Wheeled 1st Tom Crawford One Trick Pony 6 – 27:08
Quick Trip – Wheeled 2nd Scott Gibson YAR 7 – 10:43
Remote Quick Trip – Wheeled 2nd Pat Caron Wooden Monster 6 – 53.26
Quick Trip – Wheeled 3rd Harold Pulcher Jimbot 7 – 12:20
Quick Trip – Non-wheeled 1st Paul Bouchier PiDog 6 – 2:05
Remote Quick Trip – Non-wheeled 1st Jon Hylands Roz 5 – 38.22
Quick Trip – Non-wheeled 2nd Doug Dodgen DougDog 6 – 2:22
Quick Trip – Non-wheeled 3rd Doug Paradis GimpDog 5 – ??
Four Corners (12-ft sq) 1st Scott Gibson YAR 2.125”
Remote – Four Corners (8-ft sq) 1st Pat Caron Wooden Monster 2”
Four Corners 2nd Mark Reynolds PwPw 2.875”
FourCorners 3rd Scott Gibson CanMan 3.5”
Six-Cans 1st Scott Gibson Can Man 6 – 2:40

Roborama 2023

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Roborama, DPRG’s May indoor competition, was held on May 13th. There were three competition contests conducted:

  • Quick Trip– Robots drive in a straight line to a location and return to their starting point.
  • Four Corners– Robots navigate a large square and compete to see who can come the closest to their starting point.
  • Six Can– Robots race to remove 6 cans from an arena.

The results were:

Contest Place Contestant Robot Name Score/Time
Quick Trip 1st Harold Pulcher JimBot 7 – 12:53
Quick Trip 2nd Scott Gibson Can Man 7 – 18:00
Quick Trip 3rd Mike Williamson 6 Pack 7 – 21:53
Four Corners 1st Carl Ott HoverSim 0.75”
Four Corners 2nd Doug Paradis Club Bot 1.75”
FourCorners 3rd Mike Ivison BenTher 6.00”
Six-Cans 1st Scott Gibson Can Man 6 – 2:07
Six-Cans 2nd Ray Casler Tin Man 6 – 5:28

A good time was had by all.

Roborama – 2022, Video and Results

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DPRG held its first non-virtual robot competition since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic on June 18, 2022. The pandemic brought many bad things, but one good outcome was the many friends that the club gained in its weekly virtual meetings. This year’s competition included a method for competitors which do not live in Dallas area to compete by submitting YouTube videos on the day of the contest of robot runs at their location. It worked very well. We hope to grow the number of remote competitors in future competitions.

Results

• 4 Corners Local: 1st Scott Gibson (1-5/8″), 2nd Doug Paradis (2-1/4″). 3rd Carl Ott (4″)
• 4 Corners Remote: 1st Pat Caron (1-1/8″),
• 4 Corners Spinning/Pirouette Demo Local: 1st David Anderson (16-1/2″), 2nd Carl Ott (94″)
note: Local course was 9′ per side, Remote course was 8′ per side.

• 6-Cans: 1st Scott Gibson (6 cans – 1:52), 2nd Ray Caster (6 cans – 2:30), 3rd Jack Jones (6 cans – 5:30)

Next Competition

RoboColumbus, an outdoor autonomous rover contest, will be held in October of 2022. See competition tab for details.

Outdoor Rover Expert Builder Panel – DPRG Virtual Monthly Meeting, Feb 13th, 2021

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Meeting Video:

Chat Record:  Chat record (PDF)
Moderator’s slide deck:  Slide Deck (PDF)

This meeting kicks off DPRG’s 2021 focus on Outdoor Rovers.

DPRG has tentatively scheduled its 1st post Covid-19 Outdoor Competition for the 2nd Saturday of August 2021. To give everyone a quick start, the club has assembled a panel of very successful outdoor rover builders to discuss how to construct an outdoor rover. This is your chance to ask expert rover builders questions during an online interactive meeting.

In coming months DPRG will have additional presentations focused on rover related topics, and we’ll encourage builders to build.

Panel members are:

David Anderson, DPRG member and builder of Jbot, winner of RoboColumbus in 2014, 2015, 2016.

Scott Gibson, DPRG member and builder of B.U.R.P., winner of RoboColumbus in 2017.

Karim Virani, DPRG member and builder of RTK GPS rover BeachComber and rock-crawler rover Argos.

Jesse Brockmann,  Sparkfun Ambassador and builder of Jrover, winner of the 2016 (heavy) and 2017 (overall) Sparkfun AVC.

Agenda:

  • Each panelist will give a short intro / overview of their rover(s).
  • Moderator led questions. Submit questions that you want the panel to answer to Carl Ott, president(at)dprg.org.
  • Open Q&A

When:

  • Saturday, February 13th.
  • Starting at 1:00 PM Dallas time (CST).

How:

About DPRG Monthly Meetings

DPRG hosts presentations each month during its regular membership meeting. These meetings and presentations are open to public and free to attend. We hope to see you there. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Note: We do record a video of these sessions and post them on the DPRG YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/DPRGclips). By joining the meeting you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.

Virtual Robot Competition Results! – 12/12/2020

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DPRG’s first virtual competition held on December 12th, 2020 was remarkably fun. A true spirit of competition hung in the air during the different events. The Freestyle / Open Style video contest highlighted some remarkable robots. While the line following competitions showed many unique approaches in robot design and sensor arrays to accomplish the objective of following a line.

The Winners are:

  • Freestyle / Open Style Robot Video Contest:
    1. Jesse Brockmann,  Title: Sparkfun AVC Rover, Video: AVC Rover
    2. David Anderson, Title: Odometery test, Video: RCAT Odometery
    3. Carl Ott, Title: HoverSim, Video: HoverSim
  • Novice Level Line Following:
    1. Doug Paradis, 14.87 sec
    2. Jesse Brockmann, 15.4 sec
    3. Ron Grant, 19.1 sec
  • Advanced Level Line Following:
    1. Ron Grant, 31.99 sec
    2. Doug Paradis, 43.36 sec
    3. Jesse Brockmann, 56 sec
  • Challenge Level Line Following:
    1. Chris Netter, 52.1 sec
    2. Ron Grant, 108.09 sec
    3. Carl Ott, Time: 108.13 sec

Competition Master of Ceremony slide deck: 

Click to access 2020-Dec-12-DPRG-Monthy-Virtual-Robot-Contest.pdf

Article in Sparkfun News by Jesse Brockmann, Sparkfun ambassador and contest competitor.

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3551 .

Roborama 2020 has been canceled

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The Roborama 2020 competition that was scheduled for April 25th, 2020 has been canceled due to the coronavirus situation. At this time DPRG expects to conduct an outdoor competition, RoboColumbus, sometime in the Summer and an indoor competition in November. Please stay tuned for future announcements.