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What's involved:
Each year students are challenged to undertake a specific project.
The 2021 project is to build a repeatable vehicle which represents the first stages of a robotic vehicle that could be used for materials handling purposes.
The vehicle can be any moveable device, which is required to move from a point on a flat surface to touch a wall placed at right angles to the point and then return to the start point. The vehicle is to be started manually, but once it has started no interference or outside control is allowed.
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Students are challenged to undertake a specific project to design, build and test:
- 2018 – an internal pipe-climber
- 2019 – an external pipe-climber
- 2020 – line launcher
- 2021 – a repeatable vehicle
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