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various tasks as stated by the organizers. Each year, the competition has different theme

depending on the country that hosts the competition. Each game is normally allocated a
maximum time of three minutes even though the teams manage to finish the tasks in a much

faster time. Two teams will compete between each other in a game, often designated by the
colour red and blue. The game field is normally symmetrical for both teams.

This competition tests the participants’ knowledge and skills to build a robot that
could perform the pre-describe tasks. Therefore they must have sufficient knowledge from

various disciplines such as in programming, mechanical design and electronic circuit design

[2][3]. The students must also be innovative and creative to mitigate the problems presented
to them and making use of the available materials and tools. For 2019, hosting country is

Mongolia and the theme is Sharing the Knowledge. The game is based on the Urtuu system
of the nomadic Mongolians tradition. It is to deliver information swiftly by using a relay

messenger system, called the Urtuu system. This system was very important to exchange
and share knowledge. The slogan for ROBOCON Malaysia 2019 is Satu Langkah, Seribu

Lonjakan which is analogously derived from the horse stride in the Urtuu system that

travelled far and beyond to relay messages across the country [4]. For this year competition,
the participants must build two robots, namely the Messenger Robot 1 the MR1, and

Messenger Robot 2 the MR2. Figure 1 shows the layout of the game-field.

Figure 1: ROBOCON 2019 Game-field

In this game [4], the MR1 carries the Gerege as shown in Figure 2 from Khangai

Urtuu, which is the starting point. It must move across the Forest, Bridge, and crosses Line

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