HKUST Named Champion of Robocon Hong Kong Contest for Five Consecutive Years
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Robotics Team once again becomes the winner out of all the competing universities in Robocon 2015 Hong Kong Contest held in Cyberport on 28 June.
“The Fiery Dragon” team and “The War Dragon” team of HKUST Robotics Team won the Champion and the 3rd Runner-up in the contest respectively. This is the fifth consecutive year HKUST become the winning team of the Robocon Hong Kong Contest and in total seven times of receiving this honor since the inception of the contest in 2004.
The ABU Robocon is a robotics contest held across Asia-Pacific where university students inside the region compete to perform given tasks within the time limit. Each year, the contest has a different set of rules. A general format over the years requires each team to make two robots. The theme for Robocon 2015 is “Robominton”. Two robots, one with wireless and one with wired control, of a team cooperate with each other to play robots’ double badminton game with an opponent team. The HKUST champion team will represent Hong Kong in ABU Robocon 2015 to be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 21-25 August.
Robocon 2015 Hong Kong Contest attracted ten teams from six higher education institutes, namely CityU, CUHK, HKUST, IVE, PolyU and HKU. The two HKUST teams are formed by 29 undergraduate students who are from the School of Engineering and School of Science. The students are co-supervised by Prof Tim Woo, Director of the Center for Global & Community Engagement (GCE) and Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Prof Shaojie Shen, Assistant Professor of Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering.
The robots designed by HKUST are stable and robust. The excellent mechanical design allows our robots to facilitate quicker transitions. By making use of high acceleration and advanced pneumatics, our robots perform well on long-range hitting. Besides, our robots are well-equipped by simplistic yet effective hardware and efficient software algorithms.
Heartfelt thanks go to RS Components for sponsoring the electronic components and equipment.
We wish HKUST’s Robotics Team the very best in the international competition in Indonesia!
