FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a program targeted more towards high schoolers. Every year, a task is given world wide at a Kickoff Event where teams are told what the objective is to complete. Afterwards, the teams have six weeks to build the robot that can drive on preprogrammed instuctions for 15 seconds and then is able to be driven by the team.
This year's game is Breakaway. It is played on a 27 by 54 ft. field with two teams of three. Each end has two goals color-coordinated to the alliance that needs to score in it. The field has two bumps that take the whole width of the feild with a tunnel in the middle of each. On top of these tunnels, there are towers that have. Each alliance will shoot soccer balls in to those goals. For 15 seconds, the robots will run by themselves in an atonumus mode period, trying to score or block other robots from scoring. After the 15 seconds, human pilots come to the controls and continue the playing, trying to score as many points as possible.
This is a link that will show the video of the competition's task that was seen at the Kickoff. It will explain more in detail about the game itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbA33dX127E
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