Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
The Polytechnic Tower hosted the engineering and robotics hackathon “REcathon: Draft Code”, organized by the Higher School of Automation and Robotics of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport together with the student engineering association “PoliRoboTech” and PROF.IMMiT. The general partner of the event was the company “Ingriatech”.
Opening the hackathon, Denis Kozlikin, Deputy Director for Research at IMMiT, wished the participants good luck and thanked the organizers for holding this important and necessary event, the fourth in a row.
This year, 10 student teams competed. The jury included associate professors of the Higher School of Architecture and Rural Affairs Svetlana Kerpeleva, Mikhail Ananyevsky, Dmitry Polyakhov, Dmitry Tretyakov and Dmitry Shabanov, as well as an invited expert from the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern Alexey Saibel.
This time, the hackathon became a platform for testing a new idea that was planned to be implemented. Participants had to work not with fully finished robots, but with unfinished designs. They had to not only program, but also analyze, correct errors in mechanics and electronics, and modify the product for an unknown task. This solution brought the hackathon conditions closer to real engineering practice, where specialists often have to deal with someone else’s code and unstable technical solutions.
Another innovation was the new platforms with two drive wheels instead of four — this increased the maneuverability of the robots, but complicated the control and required more fine-tuning of the algorithms for movement and balancing. The final task was kept secret, which forced the teams to work in conditions of uncertainty and adapt to rapidly changing requirements. Two weeks were allocated for all preparation and debugging.
The task for the hackathon was developed by the student engineering association “PoliRoboTech”. Its leader Andrey Klinovitsky noted that it is precisely such formats that teach students flexibility, engineering thinking and the ability to combine programming with mechanics, which is especially in demand in modern technological projects.
According to the results of the tests, the winner was the Error404: Bots Not Found team consisting of: Egor Meshkov, Sofia Sokolova, Vladimir Yulik, Amir Sharif’yanov and Elizaveta Skornyakova. The second place was taken by the Termistor team: Artem Tabunshchik, Vadim Berko, Alexander Timofeev, Alexander Travin and Mikhail Orlov. The third place went to the Skrepyshi team, which included Alina Arifullina, Aidar Ibragimov, Violetta Khomenko, Ilnaz Abitov and Kirill Sultanov. All the winners are third-year students of the Higher School of Architecture and R&D.
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