Robofest Newsletter, 5-28-03 ================================================== Contents (1) Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) at Oakland University (2) reminder: Robofest 2003 National Champion Award Ceremony, June 7th (3) Robofest Summer Day Camp 2003 ================================================== (1) The 11th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition will be held at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan - May 31, June 1-2, 2003. The objective IGVC is to challenge college students to design autonomous vehicles (robots) and compete in a variety of unmanned mobility competitions such as out door obstacle course, robot navigation using GPS, and following a moving target. Especially on Monday June 2, between 8:30am and 9:40am, there will be the following demonstrations: US Army CAT, Memory Mower, DARPA Grand Challenge poster session, and AUVSI poster session. Everyone is welcomed. For more details, please visit www.igvc.org (2) Robofest 2003 National Champion Award Ceremony As announced before, Comets, Lego robot national Champion and Robo Kids, Advanced Robot national Champion are coming to LTU to receive the Champion Trophies on ................................................................... Sat. June 7 at Lawrence Tech University, Science Building Room 321. ................................................................... The ceremony will begin at 1:30pm and end around 2:30pm and open to the general public. Both teams are going to demonstrate their robots to the public. Their solutions will be shown on a multimedia projection screen and the winners are planned to explain their ideas and techniques for 2-3 minutes. Also, the official Robofest 2003 videotape will be presented on that day. If you want to have a free copy of the tape, you need to request by replying this email and must attend the award ceremony. Here's the area map to get to LTU http://www.ltu.edu/campus_maps/dir_map.html Campus map (No. 4 is the Science building) http://www.ltu.edu/campus_maps/main_map.html (Use free parking lot D) (3) Robofest Summer Day Camp 2003 LTU robotics lab is planning a day camp using Lego robots on either July 25 or 26 from 9:00am till around 3:30pm at LTU. If you are interested in please reply this email with your preferable date by June 3. Then we will decide the date based on your inputs. -------- If you wish to be removed from this email list, please reply with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Or visit http://ltu164.ltu.edu/rf02mcs/MLSubscribe.jsp and enter your email address and select unsubscribe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Math and Computer Science Department/Robotics Lab Chan-Jin Chung, Robofest organizer, Assistant Professor Lawrence Tech. University 21000 W. Ten Mile, Southfield MI 48075 CHUNG@ltu.edu qbx6.ltu.edu/chung www.robofest.net robofest@yahoo.com (248)204-3504 Fax: (248)204-3518 Robotics Lab (248)204-3815