10 Facts Everyone Should Know About Minesweepers 2019
Minesweepers and SDGs
March 20, 201910 Facts Everyone Should Know About Minesweepers 2019
Many impressive events were held this year, milestones towards our community responsibility throughout the Minesweepers 2019 challenges, in this article you will get to know all of them.
1. Minesweepers is an international robotic competition on humanitarian demining that aims at motivating researchers and developers to work on innovative solutions for this serious problem.
Egypt has been listed as the largest country most contaminated by landmines in the world. It’s the fifth country with the most antipersonnel landmines.
2- In 2019, it was the 8th year for the outdoor (Mainstream Competition) and the 1st year for the indoor (Special Competition) versions.
3- The competition theme was to make a Tele-operated or autonomous robot that can detect the surface and buried mines, collect the surface mines manually or automatically and make a map to show the mines positions and the state of the mines (surface or buried). The robot has to be able to navigate through a rough environment that mimics a real minefield.
4- In August 2019 at the American University in Cairo “AUC” where the event took place and more than 60 teams have participated in the competition, 39 teams from the junior category and 25 teams from the academia category in Egypt.
5- The competition took place in one of the biggest international conferences in robotics and intelligent systems IROS 2019 that was held at The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Macau, China.
6- 70 teams, +600 participants from 8 different countries participated in Minesweepers from different local and regional teams around the world to join Minesweepers 2019 International Competition.
7- Only 17 teams, +150 participants from 6 different countries were qualified for the final phase in IROS 2019 in Macau.
Winners
8- The winning teams in Minesweepers 2019
International Competitions of
Latin America regionals were:
Junior Category:
Matrix team, Scorpio team, Life sentinel team, MAD team
Industry Category:
1st Place, Alvaro Flores Quispe
9- Egypt winning teams in
Minesweepers 2019 International
Competitions were:
Academia category:
1st Place, Robotics Team from Robotics Student Organization / Helwan University.
2nd Place, Petrobot from October 6th university.
3rd Place, Assiut Robotics team from Assiut University.
Juniors category:
1st Place, Master of suspense from Robokid Academy.
2nd Place, Geniuses Team from Science Discovery Future Development Academy.
3rd Place, Mine fighters from Science Discovery Future Development Academy.
10- Winners of Minesweepers
Mainstream International Competition are:
Academia category:
First Place – Assuit Robotics team, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. Awarded a $1000 Prize.
Second Place: KoNar team, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland – Awarded a $500 Prize.
Juniors category:
First Place: Master of suspense, Robokid academy, Alexandria, Egypt- Awarded a $500 Prize.
See you in 2021! :”)
