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UTP PETROBOTS from Universiti Teknologi Petronas

TEAM SUPERVISOR: Ho Jia Wern

TEAM ADVISORS: Ang Kaizhe
Jason Tan Wei Qing

TEAM MEMBERS: Fathy Rashad
Joel Pang Wei Yu
Lim Shen Hua

ABSTRACT

This report deals with the development process of building two messenger robots for

ROBOCON 2019. The Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU ROBOCON) is an Asian-
Oceanian College robot competition. It was founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting

Union. In the competition, the robots compete to complete a task within a set period of time.

Great Urtuu is the main theme of this year ROBOCON. The target is to reach the Uukhai
Zone and raises the Gerege as fast as possible. Competing team members should be accurate,

fast and cooperative. A semi-auto robot (Messenger Robot 1) and a fully automatic robot
(Messenger Robot 2) will be used in the competition. Both of the messenger robots play an

important role in the competition. The design and mechanism of these two robots were based

on the Abu ROBOCON 2019 competition specifications and rules. The semi-auto robot will
able to compete with other team to complete the task in a shorter time.

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Back ground

A robot is a machine usually programmable by a computer, and capable of carrying
out a complex series of actions automatically. The word robot was coined by the Czech

writer Kapek in his play ‘Rassum’s Universal Robots’. Since then, countless devices have
been created and have been associated with the word ‘Robot’. The works of Issac Asimov

have laid the foundation of sociology pertaining to the use of robots instead of humans. And

the word ‘Robotics’ was also coined by him. In today’s world, work on robots, that resemble
and look almost human and others which do not resemble humans in any way, progresses

by leaps and bounds.

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