Next years SoutheastCon 2011 Robotics competition that will be held in Nashville TN March 17 – 20, 2011 was announced this past Sunday.
The general objective is to locate “victims” in a building that has been in an earthquake. Robots will have to navigate though rooms and around obstacles to locate and then display and say the victims location as specified by a grid system. Victims will be identified by an electronic signal and IR flashes.
The contest is being run by students at Tennessee Tech University and they have posted the preliminary Competition Rules on their website.
Both University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University are already coming up with ideas for their designs for their robots for this event.