From July 26th to 28th, 2019, the national final of the first China Graduate Robot Innovation Design Competition of “HRG BoShi Cup” was successfully held in Harbin. The competition was hosted by the Degree and Graduate Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education and the China Science and Technology Association Youth Science and Technology Center. It was undertaken by Harbin Institute of Technology and the theme of the competition was “Towards the Age of Robotic Intelligence”.
This competition was one of the theme events of the "China Graduate Innovation Practice Series Competition"，Since its launch in April, it had attracted a large number of graduate students to participate. In the preliminary competition, a total of 1311 teams from 220 universities nationwide participated in the registration and submitted their works. After competition, there were 27 creative design works, 26 software simulation works and physical display works,107 items entered the national finals. The competition eventually produced 2 special prizes, 17 first prizes and 32 second prizes. The final number of awards did not exceed 4% of the total entries.
After three days of fierce competition, the four teams selected by our school to win the national finals won 2 second prizes, and our school won the outstanding organization award of the competition. Among them, under the guidance of two teachers, Xiang Xianbo and Yang Shaolong, the “Marine Robot Innovation Team” graduate students Su Xiang, Zhang Shaoze, Cheng Hao, Ruan Zongtong and Wang Guandao’s entry “Underwater Robots for Ocean Ranch” won the second prize in the fierce competition.
This underwater robot for ocean ranching had four features: (1) equipped with three HD cameras and self-stabilizing cradle head, it can realize all-round video monitoring of underwater environment; (2) equipped with 8 propellers, which can realize high mobility underwater detection. Combined with machine vision, it can also complete the automatic inspection of deep-sea breeding cages in marine pastures; (3) equipped with smart hand claws to achieve the fishing of underwater sewage; (4) Ocean Ranching video surveillance and multi-dimensional sensor measurement data can be stored, managed and shared through the cloud server platform. The project was expected to solve the underwater "invisible, unpredictable, uncontrollable" problems in the construction and operation of marine ranching, and had good innovation and practicality.
