Ro:bit, a Robot Game Team, Wins a Total of 3 Awards in 2 Robot Competitions in 2021

Ro:bit, a robot game team of Kwangwoon University, won a total of three awards at the STEAM CUP-IRC and 2021 SRC IRC competitions held from October 28 (Thu) to 30 (Sat).

SRC (SeoulTech Robot Contest) IRC is the largest robot contest in Asia hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and hosted by Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Ro:bit won the 1st place in the 'SEOULTECH intelligent robot-intelligent wrestling robot category' (Prime Minister's Award, 2 million won) during the SRC IRC competition and the 2nd overall gold prize in the 'humanoid robot sports-intelligent high-tech sector' (National Technology Standard) Director's Award, 150 million won). In particular, in this year's 'Intelligent Robot-Intelligent Wrestling Robot’ category, the difficulty increased by adding camera image processing technology to motor and distance sensing technology. This is even more meaningful as it is the 4th consecutive win.

In addition, in the 'Intelligent Humanoid Sector', which performs missions by autonomously recognizing the surrounding environment using cameras and sensors, it recognizes the tower-building event, in which eight discs of different colors and sizes were stacked on a given pole in large order, and by recognizing a road of about 49m. It participated in the running marathon event and took the 2nd place overall (National Institute of Technology and Standards Award) with precise movements and quick mission execution.

STEAM CUP-IRC is a competition hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and organized by the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency and the Korea Robot Industry Association. ). This competition evaluates driving ability and mission solving ability by performing autonomous driving missions with a mobile robot based on ROS software, a stable autonomous driving algorithm using LiDAR, the organ of Ro:bit, and It took third place through efficient image processing.

Student Kim Hyunseo, captain of Ro:bit, said, “There were some tournaments that changed this year and there were great difficulties due to COVID-19, but all the members worked hard day and night to prepare for the tournament, so we were able to achieve good results.” He added, “I would like to thank Kwangwoon University and Professor Park Kwang-hyeon of the Department of Robotics for guiding Robit, and I want to give glory to all the members who have worked hard together.”