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In this era where organisations like Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) are

organizing robot contests like ROBOCON, we have made an attempt to make semi-
automatic or fully automatic robotic systems which could complete a specific course and

tasks given. Today when technology is developing faster than a blink of an eye and the
competition is tougher to win whether at national or at international levels, we have to put

in tireless efforts to implement the technology in simpler and effective way to compete
against some of the best teams in the field of robotics in the country.

1.2 Problem Statement

The idea of semi-auto robot came from the last ROBOCON 2009 entitled Travel

Together for the Victory Drums and the fully automatic robot came from ROBOCON 2011
with the theme of Loy Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship. Manual robot has

some weakness. For example, the user has to focus on operating the robot and sometimes

he or she must control two or more parts at the same time and these increases the possibility
of making mistakes and thus delay the movement of the robot. To construct a good semi-

auto or fully automatic robot, the robot must have a clear set of goals. Therefore, some of
the characteristics that should be presented in the robot are:

a) Stability: The weight of the robot must be suitable with its function. The size of the robot
also affects the weight of the robot. If the robot is too tall, the robot becomes less stable.

b) Automatic: The robot is programmed so that it functions automatically or can move by

itself.
c) Efficiency: The robots has good combination of motor/servo, base and other functions

that can perform fast with good precision.

1.3 Objectives

The project’s objectives and its descriptions are as the following:

a) Design two robots for ROBOCON 2019.
- Build the structure and other parts of one semi-auto and one fully automatic robot

which can function perfectly and can do the tasks given.

b) Test the performance of the robots.
- Test the function and the efficiency of the robots. Redesign and improve the

robots.

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