MINOS '02

To: micromouse@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Subject: MINOS '02
From: A Johnstone <adrian@cs.rhul.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:08:31 +0100 (BST)
cc: janet@cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dear all,

thanks for the many supportive messages you've sent post-MINOS. I thought
this year's talks were again really excellent and I'm very grateful to the
speakers who covered up for my shambolic disorganisation by producing such
quality material at such short notice.

For the record, the final programme looked something like this:

Saturday

10:30-11:00 Registration and coffee

11:00-11:15 Welcome and administrivia - Adrian Johnstone

11:15-11:45 Keynote: Micromouse now and then - Alan Dibley

11:45-12:15 Meetings and activities report plus showing of Dave Otten's
            TV interview - Adrian Johnstone and Wayne Allen

12:15-12:35 Boris the mouse - Wayne Allen

12:35-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Tuning a PID controller - Dr Bill Marshall

14:30-15:00 Forward facing opto sensors - Pete Harrison

15:00-15:30 After school mouse academies - Duncan Louttit

15:30-16:00 Coffee

16:00-16:20 Driving Lego motors - Nick Smith

16:20-16:40 Modifying RC servos - Ken Warwick

16:40-17:00 On the absurdity of a vision guided mouse - Adrian Johnstone

17:00-17:15 Mouse design and simulation software - Keith Thacker

Dinner

Sunday

10:00-12:00 Free practice

12:00-13:00 Lunch

14:00 competition

The competition running order, times and results were as follows

Alan Dibley    Thezeus VII        M  23.8           4M
Alan Dibley    Thezeus VIII       M  42.8 22.5      3M
Duncan Louttit Dot                W  31.6           2W
Duncan Louttit Cyclops            W  30.6           1W
Duncan Louttit Mad                W  67.3           7W
Duncan Louttit Dash-2A            M  96.3 46.9 30.4 6M
Ryan Chidley   Goldeneye          W  35.9           5W
Shannon and    Mr Cheese III      W  33.2           4W
 Derek Hall
Pete Harrison  Edgar-B            M  38.7           7M
Wayne Allen    Thick              W  39.1           6W
Nick Smith     Michael Schumauser M  25.2           5M
Ken Warwick    Bizzy Lizzy        M  16.3 17.4      2M
Ken Warwick    Millenium Bug      M  23.6 12.8      1M
Ken Warwick    Odd Job            W  31.9 34.7      3W

Prizes were awarded on the usual basis. The prize table held four Easter
Eggs and six bottles of wine, two or which were donated by Alan Dibley and
another two from Nick Smith. We awarded first maze-runner to Ken Warwick
and first wall-follower to Duncan Louttit and then went through the rest
of the maze winners and then the rest of the wall followers, to a maximum
of one prize per participant. Thus everybody got a prize and there was a
bottle of wine left over for the main organiser (Janet Hales) and an
Easter Egg which Alan awarded to Adrian's daughter Emma for letting her
daddy play with the robots for a whole weekend.

I believe Wayne has a copy of the maze which I will encourage him to post.

Thanks again. I will make some suggestions for MINOS '03 in a later
message.

                            Adrian

Dr Adrian Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in Computing, Computer Science Dep,
Royal Holloway, University of London,  Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England.
Email a.johnstone@rhul.ac.uk Tel:+44(0)1784 443425 Fax:+44(0)1784 439786