Logistics League Rulebook
Introduction
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The Logistics League Sponsored by Festo is a part of the RoboCup championship. In this industrially inspired league for university students, Robotino has to fulfill AGV duties. |
Version: 1.801.2012 Revision: 80 Submitted: 12.02.2012 |
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Preamble
This revised set of rules provides a precise definition of the competition environment. The rulebook ensures the same and fair circumstances for all participants, it however is not meant to dictate or suggest the way of approach to fulfill the task. Furthermore it concentrates on defining all necessary variables and necessities and is not meant to visualize the competition itself. For general information about the idea of this competition, please refer to the information booklet supplied at the Festo Didactic homepage. Technical information about the Robotino® platform and details to components used in the construction of the competition area are combined in the engineering reference and try the powerful RoboCup Simulator free of charge, which are both supplied at the link above, too.
After a thriving season 2011 and the official introduction of this league into the RoboCup portfolio, we look forward to new scale of competition that will emerge from initiatives around the globe. In 2012 we will crown the first Logistics League World Champion. In order to enable a competition at eye level among the teams, the focus of this years’ iteration is to polish the 2011 Rulebook and to shift some of the competition demands in order to achieve a continued improvement of competition revenue. This being said, some of the future developments have been tabled for this year to enable discussions prior to or at the events lead by the teams themselves. It will remain our goal to push for a competition suiting the industrial process.
Finally, no rulebook is perfect. Feel obliged to inform us about issues you like to discuss or gaps that might have an impact on the competition, so we can keep the necessity for rule discussions at the RoboCup event to a minimum. We are open for all kinds of suggestions; the set of rules will be fixed at 01/01/2012 and revised in April 2012 once the German Open is over. We also encourage all interested teams to apply as a member of the Organization Committee (OC) for both the German Open and the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico.
e-mail: robocup@festo.com
Index
Contents
Agreements & Regulations
The Logistics League follows a certain design philosophy. All teams are obliged to use the Robotino® robotic system of Festo Didactic Gmbh & Co. KG with certain freedoms and limitations. The usage of both revisions, namely 2009 and 2010 are in order, see chapter 4 for details.
The Task –“A challenge of precision within a flexible deployment system”
Our aim is to simulate autonomous guided vehicles (AGV). In opposition to regular automatic guided vehicles, a team, consisting of a maximum of three Robotinos®, shall complete the following task without a control station or human interference as successful as possible competing with a second team against the clock.
The main task is a 3-staged production cycle with self-crafted intermediate products and the transport of the final product to the designated zone. This is the genuine goal and will be rewarded considerably higher than partial fulfillment of the task. Although the distribution and utilization process of the different machine types is known to the teams, the reference which production machine is of which machine type is not. Therefore, a part of the task is to discover the machine types of as many machines as suitable. In order to complete the production cycle, it is required to produce the three subassemblies step-by-step. The factory’s capacity theoretically allows production of resources for two products at the same time. The whole factory area can be used as an intermediate storage. Finally, the successfully assembled product has to be delivered to the correct delivery gate and get dismounted into its delivery slot. The factory area has to be treated in the best possible way. Theoretical damage will result in minor punishment. This includes machines as well as pallet carriers.
Production portfolio
| Subassembly | Deployable | Prerequisites | Result |
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| S0 | M1, M2, M3, DG | none | S1 or consumed |
| S1 | M2, M3, DG | S0 | S2 or consumed |
| S2 | M3, DG | S0, S1 | P |
| Express Good | M1 | none | Finished Express Good |
The production table
The table above shows the production table concerning the main challenge; the three staged production process as well as the express good challenge. The main challenge can be repeated as long as enough pallet carriers can be provided to complete the cycle. The different machine types are specified in section 3.3
Express good
The express good challenge will start as soon a special pallet carrier has been inserted into the express good slot by the referee. The challenge requires a fast paced processing and delivery within the time requested. The challenge also requires prior knowledge concerning the machine distribution.
WIP
We are in the process of migrating the Rulebook. This article is not finished, yet!
