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Plymouth robots score away from home

An Institution of Mechanical Engineers product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 28, 2005

A group of engineering graduates from Plymouth have scored success at the UK and Ireland Robot Football Championships with the help of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

A group of engineering graduates from Plymouth have scored success at the UK and Ireland Robot Football Championships with the help of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), but the hunt is on for more universities to take part.

The event took place at the International Manufacturing Centre (IMC) at Warwick University on 21st and 22nd March and is the only tournament of its kind across the two countries.

Teams from universities at Cork, Nottingham and Plymouth and the Open University took part.

Engineering experts at Warwick eventually hope that more universities will join leading to bigger playoffs and matches.

Their brightest mechanical engineering students then competed for a host of championship titles, including five-a-side, three-a-side and simulation.

Plymouth won the three-a-side IMechE cut-glass trophy, and the Warwick team, which organised the whole event, took the runner-up prize.

IMechE student, Daniel Cronin, aged 22 and originally from Reading was the main organiser for the event.

He and fellow IMechE student, Jarl Cornell, aged 22, wowed MPs at Parliament earlier this year with their project and how they built the 7.5cm2 steel footballers.

They built a team of 10 robots which are 7.5cm2 and weigh the same as a tin of baked beans.

At the championship the autonomous robots competed against each other to score the most goals in the allocated time.

The robots are electronically driven and controlled by a central computer.

The robot movements are detected by a camera, and a computer program tells the robots where to move.

This information is transmitted via radio frequency or blue tooth technology to the robots.

The IMechE is the leading global voice for the mechanical engineering profession and has supported the event for two years running.

Richard Campbell, of the IMechE, presented the trophy to the Plymouth team and said: "The competition is a fantastic example of how innovative and exciting mechanical engineering can be and we were delighted to be involved in the event".

Cronin added that the teams held the event in their summer holidays to host the event.

He said: "We have all worked so hard for our degrees but to do something like this gives us a chance to show off our skills and capabilities as mechanical engineers".

He and Cornell are Affiliate Members of the IMechE and are both in the fourth year of their MEng in mechanical engineering, a course accredited by the institution.

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