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DIgXIE 3.0 is the best robot for second consecutive year at the First Lego League Competition in Madrid
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Publicado el 9 de Marzo de 2014

DIgSILENT Robotics Team gets the ROBOT PERFORMANCE AWARD and the MECHANICAL DESIGN AWARD at the First Lego League Competition in Madrid

Since 2011, DIgSILENT Ibérica has been involved in supporting very young future engineers and programmers as part of our Social Responsibility Program. FIRST LEGO League® (www.firstlegoleague.org) is a robotics program for 9 to 16 years old kids, designed to motivate them about science and technology. The challenge this year was called NATURE's FURY.

DIgSILENT Ibérica created a robotics team in October 2011 composed of friends and schoolmates from different nationalities. Two coaches from DIgSILENT Ibérica committed themselves to invest time and energy enough with the team to succeed in a very ambitious project: to help the children have fun while getting comfortable with technology and face a real-world problem. After a successful experience in 2011 and 2012, DIgSILENT Ibérica started again a new challenge in October 2013. Some "old" members moved from Spain to different countries and had to leave the team. We would like to thank them for their efforts and hard work in the past challenges. The team became smaller, however we continued to work very hard during the weekends.DIgSILENT's Fury was born in October 2013.

The team was split in two due to new Lego rules. They worked in parallel to design, build and program their LEGO MINDSTORMS® NXT robot (DIgXIE 3.0) to solve the missions in the Robot Game. The scope this year was to improve mechanics and work with meshing gear arrangements like worm drives, straight-cut gears, right angle axis, etc. to transmit torque through a gear ratio. In the context of the Lego competition, the number of motors is limited to three and we need two just for displacements. Different movements are required to solve the missions, it is very difficult to achieve all of them with the remaining motor. That is why we decided to invest time enough in developing geared devices able to change torque, speed and direction of a power source.

Along the way, they identified and conducted research to explore natural disasters, like the awe-inspiring storms, quakes, waves, wildfire and much more. The scope was to discover what can be done when intense natural events meet the places people live, work, and play. Both teams worked on innovative solutions against wildfire covering the most important aspects as prevention, detection, suppression and research. With the help of an expert on wildfire simulation, kids learnt a lot about forest fire suppression activities, and the promptness in decision making. Our expert Paulino Tardáguila from Meteológica, showed us that easy and quick access to fire spread forecasts have proved very useful for many forest fire fighting agencies. Early warnings to potentially affected populations, disconnection of power lines or substations, or quick allocation of fighting means are examples of decisions that can be optimised with the help of their tool for fire spread prediction (Meteológica). Thanks to Paulino, the DIgSILENT's Fury team designed an innovative device: "A Camouflage Robot Against Wildfire".

During the course of the First Lego League Competition that took place on the 8th March in Madrid, the DIgSILENT's Fury won the Robot Game (First Place!) and got two robot awards for the second consecutive year:

  • ROBOT MECHANICAL DESIGN AWARD: This award recognizes a team that designs and develops a mechanically sound robot that is durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions.
  • ROBOT PERFORMANCE AWARD: This award recognizes a team that scores the most points during the Robot Game. Teams have a chance to compete in three 2.5 minute matches, and their highest score counts.

More information about our robot DIgXIE 3.0 can be found HERE.

Not only the team had a lot of fun but also the coaches and parents! We are ready to complete next year’s challenge…WORLD CLASS coming August 26th, 2014...

¡Aúpa equipo!

Etiquetas: FLL, DIgSILENT, Lego