WPI: Research

WPI: Research http://www.socialweb.net/Clients/WPI/research.lasso Calendar of Events en-us Copyright 2013, Social Web http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Social Web webmaster@socialweb.net (Troy B. Thompson) Wed, 22 May 2013 02:39:58 GMT Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:41 GMT NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (Tue, Jun 4) http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/ http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/#2013-06-04-09:00:00 stafford@wpi.edu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, WPI: Quad, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA The second annual running of this NASA Centennial Challenge. Eleven competitors from around the world will gather with their autonomous robotic creations to meet the challenge of searching for and collecting up to ten small designated "samples" spread over an 80,000 square meter area. The robots must operate as if they were on an extraterrestrial body (eg, the moon or Mars). They cannot use any earth-based (eg, compasses) or earth-orbit-based (eg, GPS) navigation aids to determine their positions or orientation. They will have 2 hours to find and collect these samples during which they can have no operator interaction at all. The competition is divided into these phases: Inspection and Practice on 4 Jun, Level 1 qualifying rounds on 5 Jun, and Level 2 full rounds on 6 and 7 Jun. Those that succeed in the first two phases can go on to the third phase and compete for the $1.5M prize purse. The actual robots will be displayed and the prizes awarded in the Touch Tomorrow science festival that occurs on Campus from 1000-1600 on Sat 8 Jun. Sponsored by: NASA/WPI. Cost: Free Tuesday, Jun 4 - Friday, Jun 7. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:41 GMT NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (Wed, Jun 5) http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/ http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/#2013-06-05-09:00:00 stafford@wpi.edu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, WPI: Quad, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA The second annual running of this NASA Centennial Challenge. Eleven competitors from around the world will gather with their autonomous robotic creations to meet the challenge of searching for and collecting up to ten small designated "samples" spread over an 80,000 square meter area. The robots must operate as if they were on an extraterrestrial body (eg, the moon or Mars). They cannot use any earth-based (eg, compasses) or earth-orbit-based (eg, GPS) navigation aids to determine their positions or orientation. They will have 2 hours to find and collect these samples during which they can have no operator interaction at all. The competition is divided into these phases: Inspection and Practice on 4 Jun, Level 1 qualifying rounds on 5 Jun, and Level 2 full rounds on 6 and 7 Jun. Those that succeed in the first two phases can go on to the third phase and compete for the $1.5M prize purse. The actual robots will be displayed and the prizes awarded in the Touch Tomorrow science festival that occurs on Campus from 1000-1600 on Sat 8 Jun. Sponsored by: NASA/WPI. Cost: Free Tuesday, Jun 4 - Friday, Jun 7. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:41 GMT NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (Thu, Jun 6) http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/ http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/#2013-06-06-09:00:00 stafford@wpi.edu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, WPI: Quad, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA The second annual running of this NASA Centennial Challenge. Eleven competitors from around the world will gather with their autonomous robotic creations to meet the challenge of searching for and collecting up to ten small designated "samples" spread over an 80,000 square meter area. The robots must operate as if they were on an extraterrestrial body (eg, the moon or Mars). They cannot use any earth-based (eg, compasses) or earth-orbit-based (eg, GPS) navigation aids to determine their positions or orientation. They will have 2 hours to find and collect these samples during which they can have no operator interaction at all. The competition is divided into these phases: Inspection and Practice on 4 Jun, Level 1 qualifying rounds on 5 Jun, and Level 2 full rounds on 6 and 7 Jun. Those that succeed in the first two phases can go on to the third phase and compete for the $1.5M prize purse. The actual robots will be displayed and the prizes awarded in the Touch Tomorrow science festival that occurs on Campus from 1000-1600 on Sat 8 Jun. Sponsored by: NASA/WPI. Cost: Free Tuesday, Jun 4 - Friday, Jun 7. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:41 GMT NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (Fri, Jun 7) http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/ http://wp.wpi.edu/challenge/#2013-06-07-09:00:00 stafford@wpi.edu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, WPI: Quad, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA The second annual running of this NASA Centennial Challenge. Eleven competitors from around the world will gather with their autonomous robotic creations to meet the challenge of searching for and collecting up to ten small designated "samples" spread over an 80,000 square meter area. The robots must operate as if they were on an extraterrestrial body (eg, the moon or Mars). They cannot use any earth-based (eg, compasses) or earth-orbit-based (eg, GPS) navigation aids to determine their positions or orientation. They will have 2 hours to find and collect these samples during which they can have no operator interaction at all. The competition is divided into these phases: Inspection and Practice on 4 Jun, Level 1 qualifying rounds on 5 Jun, and Level 2 full rounds on 6 and 7 Jun. Those that succeed in the first two phases can go on to the third phase and compete for the $1.5M prize purse. The actual robots will be displayed and the prizes awarded in the Touch Tomorrow science festival that occurs on Campus from 1000-1600 on Sat 8 Jun. Sponsored by: NASA/WPI. Cost: Free Tuesday, Jun 4 - Friday, Jun 7. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:41 GMT