NEW ZEALAND ROBOT OLYMPIAD 2021
July 11 – 21, 2022
405-222/236/240/470, City campus, The University of Auckland
Competition Division
Junior A (Lower Primary School): Year 1 – 4
Junior B (Upper Primary School): Year 5 – 6
Challenge A (Intermediate School): Year 7 – 9
Challenge B (High School): Year 10 – 13
Competition Dates
Day 1 (July 11, Mon): Junior Individuals (Battle Cube/Battle Soccer & Line Tracer)
Day 2 (July 12, Tue): Senior Individuals (Battle Cube/Battle Soccer & Line Tracer)
Day 3 (July 13, Wed): Junior/Senior Creative Robot
Day 4 (July 14, Thu): Junior/Senior Cyber Robot & Physical Computing
Day 5 (July 15, Fri): Junior/Senior Robot in Movie
Day 6 (July 19, Tue): Robot Soccer
Day 7 (July 21, Thu): Award Ceremony (5pm at B405-470)
* No internet allowed during the competition. Will be disqualified if you use the internet without permission.
* Allowed to use ROBOROBO kit for individual categories.
* Can participate to the pre-registered categories only (cannot register during the competition period).
* Junior A can select only Battle Cube, not Battle Soccer
* Junior B and Challenge A can select ONLY one of Battle Cube and Battle Soccer (cannot select both of them).
The category, which does not have enough students, can be cancelled.
* Challenge B can select both Battle Soccer and Battle Cube, but Battle Soccer is a team game.
* Can participate to Line Tracer regardless of participating to Battle Cube and Battle Soccer.
* Participants can select ONLY one of Cyber Robot and Physical Computing (cannot select both of them).
The category, which does not have enough students, can be cancelled.
* No Physical Computing for Challenge B.
* For Creative Robot, Robot in Movie, Cyber Robot, and Physical Computing, one team can have max 3 members.
* For Robot Soccer, one team can have max 3 members.
* Only the participants who submit their completed robots within the given time can go to the final round.
* Cannot take your robots back on Day 3 and 4 if you participate to the next day competitions.
If you take your robot out from the competition venue, you should dismantle it for re-entering and re-make it during the given time.
* Lunch and drinks should be prepared by students. No food will be provided from the competition with dietary issue.
Competition Schedule
8:00 – 8:30: Registration / Entry check
8:30 – 9:00: Safety induction / Kit & computer inspection
9:00 – 13:00: Developing round
13:00 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – ? : Competition round (usually takes 2-4 hours, but it is different from the number of finalists)
Award ceremony is scheduled on Thursday of the next week of the competition (5pm).
Competition Category
Battle Cube
– Make a robot can be controlled wired/wireless.
– Size limit: 22cm x 18cm (no height limit)
– Move objects on the competition ground to the goal position within a minute.
– It is a tournament game.
– Can select one of single (1 vs. 1) and pair (2 vs. 2).
Battle Soccer
– Make a robot can be controlled wired/wireless.
– Size limit: A4 paper size within 20cm height
– Play a soccer game to make goals and keep the ball in a minute.
– Can break the opposite robots as well as your robots can be broken, but cannot use sharp weapons.
– It is a tournament game.
– Can select one of single (1 vs. 1) and pair (2 vs. 2).
Line Tracer
– Make a robot to follow the white line over the dark ground autonomously.
– Size limit: 22cm x 18cm (no height limit)
– Try as much as possible within a min as one round.
– Select the best lap time among max 3 rounds.
– Can select one of single (1 robot) and reply (2 robots).
Creative Robot
– Make robots related to the given theme, which will be given in the competition.
– No size and weight limit.
– Do presentation with demo within 3 mins plus 2 mins Q&A as a team.
Cyber Robot
– Make a graphics-based SW related to the given mission, which will be given in the competition.
– Use graphics-based logic tools, such as Scratch, Coding Story, Entry to make graphics software related to the robot.
– Should use robots. Can use the robots built from the Creative robot category.
– Do presentation with demo within 3 mins plus 2 mins Q&A as a team.
Physical Computing
– Make a graphics-based SW related to the given mission, which will be given in the competition.
– Make a story with graphics-based logic tools, such as Scratch, Coding Story, Entry.
– Can use max 2 sensors for Junior B and unlimited sensors for Challenge A, but no sensors allowed for Junior A.
– Cannot use outputs including motors for all aged groups.
– Do presentation with demo within 3 mins plus 2 mins Q&A as a team.
Robot in Movie
– Film a story using robots related to the given theme.
– A video running time should be between 30 seconds and 120 seconds, plus max 1 min interview.
– Video should be less than 200MB, but resolution should be higher than 1280 x 720 with only AVI, WMV, MOV and MP4.
– Can use the robots built from the Creative robot category.
– Submit the final video with USB memory stick.
Robot Soccer Mirosot
– Make a soccer robot system including vision, strategy and robots as a team (max 3 members).
– Follow the FIRA Mirosot rule.
Awards
Certificate to Top 3 of each division & each category
Certificate to the Finalists of each category
Top ranked students get the opportunity to compete in the International Robot Olympiad, represent to NZ (if we have it)
The International Robot Olympiad 2022 will be held in Phuket, Thailand (mid-January 2023)
Application
Eligibility: Open to all students who are officially registered to the schools in NZ
Download application here: Application
Send application or any enquiries: nzroa1@gmail.com
APPLICATION DEADLINE : 23 May 2022
WEB: https://cares.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/education/robot-olympiad
Organizers
NZ Robot Olympiad Association
CILab (Creative Imagination Laboratory)
Sponsors (TBA)
The University of Auckland
CILab (Creative Imagination Laboratory)
CARES (Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science)
Coding Lab
Sunny Chae, Barfoot &Thompson
Hi Well Charitable Foundation
Future Insurance & Mortgage
IEEE New Zealand North Chapter
IEEE New Zealand, Robotics and Automation Joint Society
ROBOROBO
IROC (International Robot Olympiad Committee)
Previous Competitions
NZRO 2022 Winners
Line Tracer Single – Junior A
– Gold:
Line Tracer Single – Junior B
– Gold:
Line Tracer Relay – Junior B
– Gold:
Line Tracer Single – Challenge A
– Gold:
Line Tracer Relay – Challenge A
– Gold:
Line Tracer Single – Challenge B
– Gold:
Battle Cube Single – Junior A
– Gold:
Battle Cube Pair – Junior A
– Gold:
Battle Cube Single – Junior B
– Gold:
Battle Cube Pair – Junior B
– Gold:
Battle Cube Single – Challenge A
– Gold:
Battle Cube Pair – Challenge A
– Gold:
Battle Cube Single – Challenge B
– Gold:
Battle Soccer Single – Junior B
– Gold:
Battle Soccer Pair – Junior B
– Gold:
Battle Soccer Single – Challenge A
– Gold:
Battle Soccer Pair- Challenge A
– Gold:
Battle Soccer Team – Challenge B
– Gold:
Creative Robot – Junior A
– Gold:
Creative Robot – Junior B
– Gold:
Creative Robot – Challenge A
– Gold:
Creative Robot – Challenge B
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Junior A
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Junior B
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Challenge A
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Challenge B
– Gold:
Cyber Robot – Junior B
– Gold:
Cyber Robot – Challenge A
– Gold:
Cyber Robot – Challenge B
– Gold:
Physical Computing – Junior A
– Gold:
Physical Computing – Junior B
– Gold:
Physical Computing – Challenge A
– Gold:
Robot Soccer – open
– Gold:
IRO 2022 Winners
Creative Robot – Junior
– Gold:
Creative Robot – Challenge
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Junior
– Gold:
Robot in Movie – Challenge
– Gold:
Physical Computing – Junior
– Gold:
Physical Computing – Challenge
– Gold: