About the Event

The objective of this challenge is to build an autonomous bot that is aware of its surroundings, and can make its way following a trail, or go through a path with walls on both sides without touching the walls. It must also be able to 'look' forward, so as to not bump into obstacles on its path.

The first part of the course is through a path with white walls on both sides. The path has 90 degree turns. However, the bot must never touch these walls. The second part of the course requires the bot to follow a curved path (black line on white surface), while detecting obstacles on its path, and taking certain definite courses of action to remove these obstacles.