roboRinth – Collaborative Robot Challenge 🤖

Project Description

The goal is to examine a labyrinth of lines with multiple (2-3) robots, find an optimal path from start to finish and possibly collect tokens within the labyrinth

🔥Starting Point🔥

• Plug & Play Network infrastructure: Details details
• preconfigured MQTT Broker running on Raspberry Pi: Details here
• MQTT Client Application: Details here
• MQTT Spy: Details here
• 3 preconfigured Lego Mindstorm Robots: Details here

Challenge Environment and Conditions

• 2-3 Lego Mindstorm robots
  • Actors (motors)
  • Sensors (brightness sensor, gyroscope, …)
  • ev3dev OS to run any code on the robot
  • MQTT client
  • WiFi dongle to communicate with server
• Raspberry Pi / PC as server
• Raspberry Pi's / PC's as MQTT clients

Idea of the challenge

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-78wloOzY

Proposition for team splitting

• 1 team logic on robots (sensors, actors, communication)
• 2 teams logic on server (data analysis, map composition, tasks & instructions)

Time for project

• Start: Monday, 21st of October, after arrival
• End: Wednesday, 23rd of October, before lunch

Programming language

• possibly Python

Requirements to PC

• possibly Docker
• possibly VirtualBox