Team Nepal departing from Tribhuvan International Airport
With the theme “Harvest Day” symbolizing the agricultural history of Vietnam, ABU Robocon 2024 was hosted in Quang Ninh province of Vietnam. The theme consisted of a full agrarian cycle i.e. planting, harvesting and storing. Each participating team needed to make two robots: Robot 1 and Robot 2; out of which Robot 1 should be an automatic robot and Robot 2 could be manual/semi-automatic/automatic. One team would be Red and the other team would be Blue.
| Official Theme Release Video
Robot 1 (Manual Robot)
As per the theme, Robot 1 had access to planting and harvesting zones while Robot 2 had access to planting, harvesting, storage and silo zones. At first, our Robot 1 planted the seedlings on top of pre-determined markers. Based on the number of successful planting, grains were harvested by Robot 1 in the following order: 1 Empty Grain (Purple ball), then 1 Paddy Rice (Team coloured ball).
Team Nepal awaiting for their match in the Game-Day with Robot 2 (Automatic robot) in the front and Robot 1 in the back
Finally, our Robot 2 would go to the storage zone, pick up Paddy Rice and then store that rice in one of the five silos (cylindrical storage vessels) in the silo zone. The team that captures 3 silos (storage vessels) first wins, else the winner is decided on the basis of points received from planting, harvesting and storing.
Team Nepal with Tokyo Electron Award
Robot 1 had a unique seedling intake design based on a pulley and belt mechanism as well as a screw mechanism for seedling storage. Robot 2 had a roller mechanism mounted with multiple Mecanum wheels for easy intake of grains. In the event, Team Nepal won the Tokyo Electron Award for the unique design of robots.