Welcome to the Homepage of EPFL's Mobile Robot Competition


Introduction

Each year the Autonomous Systems Lab and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems organize a mobile robot contest for the students of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and other technical high-schools.

The flyer of the contest is here (PDF).

Results of the 2005 Smartrob Contest

Flying Robots (Blimp) Wheeled Robots (Smartease)
Rank Team Participants Affiliation
1. Windship

Maxime Baillifard, Pierre-Yves Vannay

Microtechnique (EPFL)
2. HTA Luzern

Marco Fanger, Sture van de Moortel, Andreas Bolfing, Manfred Oberholzer

HTA Luzern
3. Two-Lite

Kaspar Jenni, Julien Ruffin, Gaëtan Matthey

Informatique, Microtechnique (EPFL)
Discalifiés Bullo Bis

Roland Vulliamy, Yves Moser

Microtechnique (EPFL)
M-Buur

Martin Bauer, Michel Hess, Jonas Hiller, Michael Sigrist

Microtechnique (EPFL)
Rank Team Participants Affiliation
1. Popcorn

Niklaus Hugi, Peter Siegrist, Simon Honold

Microtechnique (EPFL)
2. Rhinoféroce

Cédric Blatter, Philipp Kobel, Lê Ha Huy Hoang, Selim Megzari, Imad Riachi

Microtechnique (EPFL)
3.
Calodox Sebastien Gerlach PhD student
4. Malabar

Daisy Lachat, Alain Dysli

Microtechnique (EPFL)
5 Erdbeeri

Martin Villiger

Amanda Prorok

(Michel Stutz)

Informatique, Microtechnique (EPFL)
6. ZHW2

Bühler Thomas, Heller Andreas

Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur (ZHW, ET3a)
7. Adys

Fanny Riedo, Elodie Lamothe, Jan Stoeckli, Alex Vulliemin, Guillaume Schmit, Florian Vaussard, Frédéric Rochat

Microtechnique (EPFL)
Scotchy

Mario Greber, Matthias Geissbühler, Michael Friedrich, Ruben Knaach, Jean-Paul Fuchs, Manuel Sanchez

Microtechnique (EPFL)
ZHW1

Helbling Simon, Kunz Peter

Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur (ZHW, IT3ab)
Rocco

Uli Aschauer, William Zogg

Matériaux, Microtechnique (EPFL)

Detailed results for the wheeled robots can be found here.

Pictures of the contest can be seen here.

Contest this year

 

 

Robot name Type Task
Smartease
Cylindrical robot with two driven wheels The Smartease rules page contains the rules for this part of the contest.
Blimp
Propellered balloon The Blimp rules page contains the rules for this part of the contest.

Site Contents

The smartrob.org web pages are organized into two parts: General information such as who is organizing this contest and who are our sponsors; and information aimed at the participants such as rules and datasheets. At the top of each page there's a navigation bar to access these pages: