FAQs

General:

Q. My robot isn't ready yet. So I can't click photos of it to submit along with the abstract. So should I send my abstract after the robot is ready?

Ans: You must submit your abstracts by 18th of December. If you do not have a complete bot ready by then you need to attach photos of whatever you have built till then. Also sketches of your mechanism and algorithms / pseudo-codes are expected along with your abstract.

Q. What am I supposed to do to complete my registration?

Ans: You have to go to the website and go to the registration link (http://www.techkriti.org/register). All of your team members have to register individually. After that, each one of you will get a conformation mail. Then submit your abstract in the prescribed format to robogames@techkriti.org .

Lumos:

Q: Is it necessary to have two robots?

Ans: Not at all. You can use a single robot (autonomous cum manual) which will first make a path and then it will come back to its starting point and start following it. 

Q: Will the colors be in the same order as given in the arena?
Ans: The colors will be in random order and not necessarily in the order same as given in the arena.

Q: Can the arena be traverse with the help of touching the wall?

Ans: NO. There is a penalty for touching the wall.

Q: Do I have to cross the color to get the checkpoint?

Ans: The colors below are indicative of the distance the drawers has to be pushed so after the drawer has been pushed to the desired color you have to just follow the wall.

Q: What are the rules for the power supply?

Ans: The manual power supply can be off-board but the autonomous power supply has to be on-board.

Q: Can manual and autonomous robot communicate?

Ans: NO. There should not be any mode of communication between them.

Q: What will be the color of the drawers and the floor?

Ans: It will be white.