UNAIR NEWS 鈥 After qualifying for the national level, the聽ASTRO 聽team聽at the Indonesia Robot Contest (KRI) 2021 managed to win 3rd place in the final of the Indonesian Thematic Robot Contest (KRTMI) on Saturday, October 16, 2021.聽The victory was obtained after defeating the N鈥橰IMAU robot from Sriwijaya University with a score of 50-36 with a record time of 2 minutes 40 seconds.
After heading for the quarter-finals by defeating ELEKTROBOT from Halu Oleo University, the ASTRO UNAIR team was defeated by RIVAL ITS after spending all 3 minutes of the match in the first session and losing to DAM in the second session.
鈥淎s a new team, we don鈥檛 really set a target to win because the most important thing is that we try our best,鈥 said Sirojuddin, Team Leader of ASTRO UNAIR.
Not much different from the preparation during the Regional II elimination, in this national level preparation, the ASTRO UNAIR Team improved some technical matters and practiced more regularly.
鈥淲e modified the robot, which initially couldn鈥檛 take coins from below so it could (take coins, ed) from below, and of course, we practiced more regularly and intensively,鈥 explained Udin.
The ASTRO UNAIR Team Leader said that several technical obstacles occurred during the competition and several things that needed to be improved, including the speed. 鈥淲e are a bit overwhelmed with ITS鈥檚 game scheme,鈥 he said.
鈥淏esides, we still see a problem in the聽delay聽time of聽imaging process聽between software streaming聽with聽software聽belonging to the committee.聽More or less, the聽delay聽can be up to five seconds,鈥 he explained.
The KRTMI competition uses two fields, physical and virtual. So in addition to requiring a stable network speed also affects. Furthermore, Udin with his four colleagues, Muhammad Naufal Alfarisi and Muhammad Rafi Athallah Jatniko (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering student), Ilman Andaludzi (Industrial Engineering student), and Diaz Samsun Alif (Electrical Engineering student), are all students of Class of 2020 batch, hope to make more achievements for future competitions.
In addition to the ASTRO UNAIR team, the ALEGRO UNAIR team also participated in KRI 2021for the Indonesian Search and Rescue Robot Contest Division (KSRI). (*)
Author: Tata Ferliana W.
Editor : Binti Q. Masruroh
