Today we held the finals of our Mazebot Challenge at the Institute for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems at TUHH. The challenge is part of our course Design and Implementation for Software Systems. The Mazebot Challenge gives students the chance to apply the skills they learn in this course not just in simulation, but on real hardware, allowing them to experience first-hand the challenges that arise when software meets the physical world.
This winter semester, 16 teams participated, and 6 successfully let a LEGO Mindstorms robot navigate autonomously through a maze using only three sensors: a color and a distance sensor, and a gyroscope. In today's final event, three short-listed teams presented their solutions and competed in an unknown maze. The winning team was determined through public vote of all course participants. Congratulations Lael Schunter and Gunther Söding!
