Eurobot – Unict Team website

Game elements almost ready!!

CICCIO and the UNICT TEAM ranked 2nd in the Eurobot World Cup 2011 in Astrakhan (RUS)!

We have also been awarded the Best Technical Solution prize.

Astrakhan – June, 29th
12:43hrs GMT+1
CICCIO has been APPROVED!

After the successful experience in the Swiss Eurobot, CICCIO is now ready to take part in a bigger challenge!

We proudly announce that CICCIO will participate in the Eurobot competition in Astrakhan from the 28th of June to the 3rd of July!

View Eurobot unictteam 2011 in a bigger map

This is the official site of the competition:
http://www.eurobot-live.ru

We are using all lessons learned from Swiss Eurobot to improve CICCIO’s performance.
Eventually, CICCIO will do its best while facing the opponent robots (we have seen there are strong ones!).

Stay tuned for further updates!

This week-end the Swiss Eurobot competition will take place in Yverdon-les-bains:

You can find the complete program of the event at the following links:

• Swiss Eurobot Official Site
• HEIG-VD – host of the event [French]

20 teams from Switzerland, Algeria, France and Austria will participate; CICCIO will be there, too
We are very excited and are working hard in the final testing phase of our robot.

We also like the scheduling of the matches: 8 qualification rounds and a final phase where you always get a second chance!

The host will provide a live streaming of the event: you can access it from the above links or by clicking the “LIVE” button on the upper right of our website.

It’s time to reveal more details about our robot, CICCIO!
The following video shows the evolution of CICCIO from its early stages:



At the very beginning of the video, you can see CICCIO doing its first steps, then we tested a single arm to collect pawns and build a simple tower.

The reminder of the video shows CICCIO in its final stage: 4 lateral arms and a front pincer allow CICCIO to collect the game elements. The robot is able to quickly build a full tower thanks to its rotation-based construction. CICCIO can carry up to 4 pawns and a full tower.

CICCIO will participate in the next Swiss Eurobot competition.

We are looking forward to meet the other teams and enjoy together the competion

Let us introduce CICCIO, the robot of the Unict Team that will take part in Eurobot 2011.
CICCIO was entirely designed using CAD and has the following main characteristics:

• differential drive configuration actuated by two DC Faulhaber 2642 motors
• four arms, each actuated by two servo motors, to collect pawns
• a front pneumatic pincer to handle kings and queens
• an odometry-based localization system using passive wheels
• an infrared-based obstacle avoidance system
• lateral barcode readers to distinguish between kings and queens
• an lcd display for human interaction
• an embedded PC featuring an ARM920T running @ 200Mhz with Debian GNU/Linux on top

The motor controller and most of the device drivers have been written in C, while the strategies have been developed in Python.

Want to know more about CICCIO? Get the pilot study here.