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History of the BEST Program
2011 BUGS
BEST Genetics had been investigating genetically engineering various
types of
bugs, with thousands of hours of effort going into a major breakthrough.
Unfortunately, the major breakthrough turned into a major breakout, and the
BUGS have escaped. Containment areas for 3 types of bugs failed, and some
genetically engineered flies, cockroaches, and termites have escaped.
The bugs have been tracked to an abandoned shed on a new construction site. Our
teams robotics mission is to design a robot to recapture these bugs, without
harming them, and place the BUGS and food for the BUGS in containment areas.
Food dispensers have been placed at the 4 corners of the shed and can be
activated by pressing a switch near the bottom of the shed. Food can also be
found under the orange cones in the field.
Some Basic Rules:
Teams will compete in 3 minute rounds, that will broken up into 3 sets of
matches, the seeding rounds, the semifinal rounds, and the final rounds
Flies will look similar to a pair of 5 styrofoam balls
Termites will look similar to a 12 sock filled with beans and capped at each
end with PVC caps
Cockroaches will look similar to electronic HEX bugs
Food for the bugs will look similar to yellow tennis balls
Robots may not intentionally interfere with other robots (no bugging the other
teams !!!)
Teams will use a robot driver and spotter for each round. Drivers must rotate
round by round through a set order.
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