BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20221223T124837Z UID:D9CA6DB5-4DC2-45CA-A312-B05B6249869C DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221213T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221213T200000 DESCRIPTION:This event will see our students go head to head to win a grand prise\, judged by a pannel of academics and industry experts. Come support the various teams taking in this challenge.\n\nGeneral Objectives:\n\nThe objective of this contest is for a robot to follow a black line on a whit e background\, without losing the line while navigating several turns on a race course. The robot to complete the course in the shortest period of t ime while accurately tracking the line from start to finish wins.\n\nCours e Specifications:\n\n- The contest arena will be approximately 1.3 m. wide and 3 m. long and will have a flat\, even surface\, and a white backgroun d.\n- The start/finish line will be in the middle of a straight section of the course\, no less than 1 m long.\n- The start/finish line will be mark ed by a strip of black tape 25 cm long and approximately 2 cm wide\, perpe ndicular to the course line.\n- The surface of the course will be covered with white paper\, cardboard or similar no-reflective material.\n- The bla ck line will be no less than 25 cm from the edge of the course at any poin t.\n- The black line will be approximately 2 cm thick and will be made fro m black\, non-reflective tape.\n- The course will have several sharp turns of 90 degrees\, or more. Turns sharper than 90 degrees will have an [arch radius](http://www.mathopenref.com/arcradius.html) of at least 10 cm.\n- There will be no gaps and intersections in the black line (except on the s tart/finish line as specified above).\n\nRobot Specifications:\n\n- Line F ollowers must be self contained\, and not externally operated by wire or b y\nremote control during the race.\n- A Line Follower must not exceed 30 c m in overall length\, 20 cm in overall width and 15\ncm in overall height. \n- The robot must be powered by DC battery pack(s) attached to its body a nd carried with the robot along the race track.\n\nContest rules:\n\n- Eac h line follower will make 2 consecutive\, uninterrupted laps on the course track to complete the race.\n- The total time for completing the race in seconds\, minus any bonuses (see below) is the final score for the robot.\ n- If a line follower completes successfully all laps\, without losing the line\, or requiring manual intervention of any kind\, it will receive a 1 0% time bonus (i.e. its total time for completing the race will be reduced by 10%).\n- If a line follower loses the line\, it has to re-enter the co urse track in a position before the point\, where it lost the line. The ro bot may be picked up and placed manually back on the line by a contestant\ , but time will not be stopped.\n- A robot is deemed to have lost the line when no part of the robot (base\, wheels etc.) is over the black line at any point in time during the race. The official of the race will signal im mediately when he /she determines that a robot has lost the line.\n- If a robot experiences a mechanical failure during the race\, a contestant may pick it up\, do minor adjustments and place it back on the course at a poi nt\, before the point when it was picked up. Time will not be stopped duri ng this process.\n- If a robot does not complete all required laps in the race\, or exceeds 5 minutes in completing the race\, it receives a score o f 300 (5 minutes).\n- The line follower with the lowest score from success fully completing the race wins.\n\nCo-sponsored by: City\, University of L ondon\n\nAgenda: \nAgenda will be sent in the following days.\n\nRoom: B20 0\, Bldg: Tait Building\, Northampton Square\, London\, England\, United K ingdom\, EX1V 0HB LOCATION:Room: B200\, Bldg: Tait Building\, Northampton Square\, London\, E ngland\, United Kingdom\, EX1V 0HB ORGANIZER:ieee@city.ac.uk SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:End of The Line 2022 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/333566 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>This event will see our students go head t o head to win a grandprise\, judged by a pannel of academics and industry experts. Come support the various teams taking in this challenge.</p>\n<h2 ><strong>General Objectives:</strong></h2>\n<p>The objective of this conte st is for a robot to follow a black line on a white background\, without l osing the line while navigating several turns on a race course. The robot to complete the course in the shortest period of time while accurately tra cking the line from start to finish wins.<span id="more-196"></span></p>\n <h2><strong>Course Specifications:</strong></h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The contest ar ena will be approximately 1.3 m. wide and 3 m. long and will have a flat\, even surface\, and a white&nbsp\;background.</li>\n<li>The start/finish l ine will be in the middle of a straight section of the course\, no less th an 1 m long.</li>\n<li>The start/finish line will be marked by a strip of black tape 25 cm long and approximately 2 cm wide\, perpendicular to the c ourse line.</li>\n<li>The surface of the course will be covered with white paper\, cardboard or&nbsp\;similar&nbsp\;no-reflective material.</li>\n<l i>The black line will be no less than 25 cm from the edge of the course at any point.</li>\n<li>The black line will be approximately 2 cm thick and will be made from black\, non-reflective tape.</li>\n<li>The course will h ave several sharp turns of 90 degrees\, or more. Turns sharper than 90 deg rees will&nbsp\;have an&nbsp\;<a title="arch radius definition" href="http ://www.mathopenref.com/arcradius.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arch radius</a>&nbsp\;of at least 10 cm.</li>\n<li>There will be no gaps and i ntersections in the black line (except on the start/finish line as specifi ed above).</li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>Robot Specifications:</strong></h3>\n< ul>\n<li>Line Followers must be self contained\, and not externally operat ed by wire or by<br />remote control during the race.</li>\n<li>A Line Fol lower must not exceed 30 cm in overall length\, 20 cm in overall width and 15<br />cm in overall height.</li>\n<li>The robot must be powered by DC b attery pack(s) attached to its body and carried with the robot along the r ace track.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>Contest rules:</strong></h3>\n<ul>\n<l i>Each line follower will make 2&nbsp\;consecutive\, uninterrupted laps on the course track to complete the race.</li>\n<li>The total time for compl eting the race in seconds\, minus any bonuses (see below) is the final sco re for the robot.</li>\n<li>If a line follower completes successfully all laps\, without losing the line\, or requiring manual&nbsp\;intervention&nb sp\;of any kind\, it will receive a 10% time bonus (i.e. its total time fo r completing the race will be reduced by 10%).</li>\n<li>If a line followe r loses the line\, it has to re-enter the course track in a position befor e the point\, where it lost the line. The robot may be picked up and place d manually back on the line by a contestant\, but time will not be stopped .</li>\n<li>A robot is deemed to have lost the line when no part of the ro bot (base\, wheels etc.) is over the black line at any point in time durin g the race.&nbsp\;The official of the race will signal immediately when he /she determines that a robot has lost the line.</li>\n<li>If a robot expe riences a mechanical failure during the race\, a contestant may pick it up \, do minor adjustments and place it back on the course at a point\, befor e the point when it was picked up. Time will not be&nbsp\;stopped&nbsp\;du ring this process.</li>\n<li>If a robot does not complete all required lap s in the race\, or exceeds 5 minutes in completing the race\, it receives a score of 300 (5 minutes).</li>\n<li>The line follower with the lowest sc ore from successfully completing the race wins.</li>\n</ul><br /><br />Age nda: <br /><p>Agenda will be sent in the following days.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR