Compete for a Landmine Free World
In conjunction with the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), this Indoor Version will take place in the beautiful city of Macau, China in November 4-5, 2019.
It’s a new version of Minesweepers the first international robotic competition on humanitarian demining established in 2012. That aims at raising public awareness of the seriousness of landmines and UXOs contamination and fostering robotics research and its applications in the area of humanitarian demining in the world.
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13 May First Call for Participation
15 August Team Submission Deadline
20 August Notification Acceptance
26 August IROS Registration Deadline
4-5 November Minesweepers Competition
*All deadlines are 23:59 (GMT+4)
Competition Phases
1Eligibility Phase
Where teams have to send technical report and video, then they will get the confirmation of being qualified to the next round and their score of this stage.
2Classification Phase
Includes two rounds
Round 1 “first day of the competition”, the teams will compete by their robots in the indoor minefield, to choose the qualified teams for final round.
Round 2 “the second day of the competition”, robots will compete again and give a 15 min technical presentation on a jury panel talking about their work and robot.
Round 1 “first day of the competition”, the teams will compete by their robots in the indoor minefield, to choose the qualified teams for final round.
Round 2 “the second day of the competition”, robots will compete again and give a 15 min technical presentation on a jury panel talking about their work and robot.
Competition Categories
It's Your Turn to Compete!
Industry
Minesweepers-Industry is a special category of the Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World competition. Companies are invited to participate in this competition and demonstrate their state-of-the-art solutions and technologies in the area of humanitarian demining.
In this competition, each participating team will construct a teleoperated or an autonomous vehicle that should be able to search for surface and buried metallic/ non metallic objects of different dimensions and shapes that mimic the anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnances. The vehicle must be able to automatically produce a high-precision map of the detected objects without human intervention. The vehicle has to able to navigate through rough environment that mimics a real minefield.
In this competition, each participating team will construct a teleoperated or an autonomous vehicle that should be able to search for surface and buried metallic/ non metallic objects of different dimensions and shapes that mimic the anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnances. The vehicle must be able to automatically produce a high-precision map of the detected objects without human intervention. The vehicle has to able to navigate through rough environment that mimics a real minefield.
Academia
This category is for graduates and undergraduates to enrich their experience and skills in robotics and lead the future robotics industry.
Each participating team (Max. 5 members) will construct a teleoperated or an autonomous robot that should be able to search for underground and above ground anti-personnel mines and produce automatically a map of the detected mines. The robot has to able to navigate through rough environment that mimics a real minefield.
Juniors
This category is designed for preparatory and high school students, we provide the opportunity to innovate for these young students who will change our world into a landmine free one.
Each participating team (Max. 5 members) will construct a teleoperated or an autonomous robot that should be able to search for underground and above ground anti-personnel mines. The robot has to able to navigate through rough environment that mimics a real minefield.