Young engineers from universities and robots compete in Shenzhen, and the 2024 Mech Masters Competition comes to an end!
2024-08-12
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On August 11, the 23rd National University Robot Competition RoboMaster 2024 Robot Master Super Competition National Competition (referred to as "RoboMaster Competition") officially came to an end at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. During the national competition, more than 30 college teams and about 1,000 young engineers came to this annual robot competition and academic exchange feast to challenge the honor of the national champion. After days of fierce competition, Shanghai Jiaotong University finally won the national championship, and the South China Tiger Team of South China University of Technology, the TDT Team of Northeastern University, and the Hello World Team of Zhejiang University won the second, third, and fourth place respectively.
National competition scene
Building a robot team through multidisciplinary cross-disciplinary research
According to reports, the Mech Masters Competition is one of the events under the National College Student Robot Competition. It focuses on examining the comprehensive application of science and engineering subjects and engineering practice capabilities of participating students. Every year, the competition rules are iterated based on the cutting-edge hotspots in the global science and technology field, and high-tech is integrated into robot strategic confrontations.
Robots made by participating students are competing in the competition
In this year's competition, there are radars that can provide the team with a global vision, sentry robots that operate autonomously, and dart launching systems that can accurately strike moving targets from a long distance. These robot hardware and software are designed, developed, and produced from scratch. For young engineers from universities at the undergraduate level, these are complex topics that involve the cross-integration of multiple disciplines.
Interview with the captain of the South China University of Technology team:
"As the technical requirements of the competition have become more diversified and intelligent, there are more challenges to our knowledge reserves for preparation." Yu Junhui, captain of the South China University of Technology team, told reporters that the main players of the South China Tigers are basically sophomores. In order to maintain the advantages of traditional strong teams, the players need to absorb a lot of knowledge in related subject areas such as mechanics and artificial intelligence outside of classroom textbooks day and night.
"In addition to understanding traditional mechanical structures, embedded development, hardware, and control, we also need to learn visual algorithms and other content." Yu Junhui introduced, "For example, the newly added Sentinels in the past two seasons and the radar arms that have been vigorously promoted have made our vision team more diversified from only involving traditional vision to the current technical direction. For example, we need to learn neural networks. For example, the autonomous navigation and autonomous decision-making capabilities of the Sentinels require knowledge similar to unmanned driving."
Mech Masters Competition becomes a cradle for training engineers
The preparation time for the Mech Masters Competition is as long as one year. Participating students need to follow the methodology from product creativity to implementation and complete the design and production of the robot by themselves.
Interview with the captain of the Southern University of Science and Technology team:
"Through the preparation for the competition, we have gained the practical spirit of engineers in dealing with practical problems." Shu Zihe, captain of the Southern University of Science and Technology's ARTINX team, told reporters that the experience of participating in two consecutive competitions has left a strong mark on his youth. "Our undergraduates may focus more on theoretical education and less on hands-on practice. In the Mech Master competition, each team member can do it by themselves, from mechanics, electronic control, hardware, to visual algorithms, to build our robot from scratch, which is more similar to project management in an enterprise. In addition, the experience of collaboration of the entire team is something that cannot be gained in undergraduate classes."
It is reported that the Mech Masters Competition, as a key practice platform for science and engineering in colleges and universities across the country, guides students to apply theoretical knowledge learned from books to practice, gain growth in the process of independent research and development of machines, and further experience the many challenges faced in entrepreneurship and employment. At present, the competition has become a competitive stage for more than 400 colleges and universities, has sent about 50,000 young engineers to the society, and has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with hundreds of colleges and universities.
The post-match development trends of the team members from various universities also reflect to a certain extent the benefits of actual practice training in the competition for improving the capabilities of young engineers from universities. The reporter learned from the organizer that according to current statistics, many members of the South China Tiger team have been admitted to universities such as South China University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Xi'an Jiaotong University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Peking University, or have entered technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent, vivo, and DJI.
Since the establishment of the Shenzhen University team, 10 members have joined DJI, and 4 related patents have been published since 2018. In 2023, 6 members passed the postgraduate entrance examination/received admission to Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Nankai University, Shenzhen University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other universities. The Guangzhou City Institute of Technology team published 10 related papers/patents in 2023, and many of them joined drone, robot and driverless companies after graduation.
Text and photos by Guangzhou Daily New Flower City reporter: Ruan YuanyuanVideo/Guangzhou Daily New Flower City reporter: Ruan YuanyuanGuangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Yang Hongquan
