robots will demolish and build
Demolition and construction is the theme of "Robot Showdown 2002," an annual engineering competition to be held on Wednesday, May 1, in Davies Auditorium, Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St.
This year's competition will feature creations by 33 students who are studying mechanical engineering design. The participants will use their robots to demolish two Yale "buildings" to make way for a new engineering building.
The action takes place on an 8' x 8' game board at 4:30 p.m. The Yale buildings are miniature replicas of buildings in the area of Hillhouse, Trumbull, Prospect and Grove streets. The demolition and building work will be done by robots designed and constructed by Yale students in Glenn Weston-Murphy's "Mechanical Design Studio" class.
"The students are given four sites to build on. Each site and each building material is worth different points," explains Weston-Murphy, lecturer in mechanical engineering and an engineer with more than 20 years industry experience in the United States and abroad.
"The object is to come up with a combination of locations and materials to earn as many points as possible," he says, adding, "We've taken students who may not have built anything before and brought them to a point where they can see the results of what they built in action. To see that process evolve is very gratifying."
The students will use full-size two-pound bricks and one-ounce H beams to construct the new engineering "building".
Soccer-playing robots built by electrical engineering students in Professor Roman Kuc's "Embedded Systems" class will also compete against each other in a soccer "shoot out" during a break in the Robot Wars competition. Nine students who have built their own circuits and sensors will participate in a game where the robot has to find a soccer ball, aim it toward a goal and shoot.
"The object of this game is to shoot five goals as fast as possible," says Kuc. This event will take place between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
"Robot Showdown 2002" is free and open to all.
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