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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
The Polytechnic University hosted a regional robotics Olympiad for students of St. Petersburg universities. The team of the Higher School of Automation and Robotics (HSAiR) of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport took an honorable second place in the team championship.
The organizer of the annual robotics Olympiad is the Committee for Science and Higher Education of the Government of St. Petersburg together with the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” named after V. I. Ulyanov. The Higher School of Automation and Robotics acted as the operator of the event in partnership with Omega LLC.
The subject Olympiad has been held since 2008, its goal is to identify talented youth, stimulate students’ scientific activity, and improve the quality of training of university graduates, said the host of the event, Konstantin Mashyanov, an engineer at the Mechatronics educational laboratory of the Higher School of Aviation and Radio Engineering.
This year, a record number of teams applied — 16 from nine universities of St. Petersburg. The parting words were given by the Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Communication Technologies of SPbPU Maxim Pasholikov, Deputy Director of IMMiT for Educational Activities Pavel Kovalev, Director of HSAI Olga Matsko, as well as the Head of the Education and Science Directorate of Omega LLC Vladislav Vasiliev and the honorary guest, Director of the Scientific and Educational Center Concern VKO Almaz-Antey Sergey Baushev.
The jury included representatives of the participating universities. Technical support for the teams was provided by students of the Higher School of Architecture and Russian Engineering from the PoliRoboTech student engineering association.
Participants completed various tasks. They programmed Omegabot to move along a closed curved trajectory and carry an object from point A to point B, thought about the possibilities in the field of robotics, and much more.
According to the results of the team competition, the students of BSTU “Voenmekh” won. The team of polytechnics, which included 3rd year students of the Higher School of Architecture and Rural Affairs Zakhar Vcherashny, Vladimir Yulik, Egor Meshkov, Vadim Berko, Alexander Timofeev and Alexander Travin, took the honorable second place. The team of ITMO University came in third.
In the individual championship, the gold medalist was BSTU “Voenmekh” student Maxim Smirnov, second place went to Pavel Myznikov (GUAP) and Yaroslav Petrov (GUAP), third place was shared by BSTU “Voenmekh” students Alexander Galkin, Timofey Skrykov and SPbGUAP Olga Timofeeva.
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