Mission On Mars 2016 FAQ 2

For more information concerning the 2016 Mission On Mars Robot Competition, click on the link below: http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-challenge/mission-on-mars?s_tid=OIT_12940

• "Are we allowed to keep the navigation data from the previous run in the robot when we are running the robot several times in the same arena?"

Each run is independent so it is not allowed to keep navigation data from previous runs.

• "Is the starting point of the robot always fixed at (50cm, 50cm) and is positioned so that it is facing rightwards, or would the positioning of the robot changed for every run? Finally, can we assume that the robot and all the objects are placed parallel to the x-y axes of the border?"

The robot always starts from the same position. The simulator was created in order for the participants to find themselves in the same situation as on the day of the finals. Whether it be the starting position, or the obstacles, you will find the same environment in the simulator and on the day of the finals. Which means that yes, the obstacles are indeed always parallel to the arena borders.

• “How could we find out whether our model can be run on Raspberry Pi without running out of memory / occupying the full CPU?”

The model you are working on runs on the Arduino DUE. It has a lot free memory/CPU available for computation. If your model is elected for the final, we will inform you in advance if your model fit or not in the robot so you have some time to optimize before the D day.

• “How are these results scored? Does the algorithm has to run only once? If more than once, how are time and crashes considered for the score?”

The robot will be run a couple of times on each arena. The best score on a specific arena is kept and averaged with the other best scores from the other arenas. Like in simulation, when the robot crashes we take the number of targets acquired at that point with the time of the discovery of the last target.

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I have no idea what this is. It would be good to include a link to the introductory page about this competition so people know what it's about.