***Smart Robotics Challenge***

Automation in construction is a new emerging field related to Robotics. Engineers, everywhere, are searching for new ways and techniques to automatically and efficiently transport bulk construction material through hostile environment and rough terrain.

You are challenged to design a small robot collector-transporter that could be guided by one person and could deliver moderate amounts of gravel from a specified loading area. You must demonstrate your design concept using a small working model of your device.

To prove the concept you will design a prototype system that will be used to collect gravel from a loading area and transport it through a pre-specified course and up a stair setup and empty as much gravel as possible into a receiving container within a ten-minute time limit. In this ten-minute period you will setup your device and run as many trips as possible, and you can only empty it into the receiving container at the end of the track. To make multiple trips, you must return to the loading area through the same track. At the end of the trial, the gravel in the receiving container will be weighed and the team with the most gravel carried minus the penalties will win.