always.id – The robotics team of Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) represented by the RIDER team has once again succeeded in making the alma mater and Indonesia proud internationally.

As the representative of Indonesia, the ITS team managed to qualify for the finals and won the second place in the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon) 2022 event held in New Delhi, in India, by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. (ABU) online on Sunday (21/21).8) night.

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ITS RIDER Team Supervisor, Muhammad Lukman Hakim ST MT revealed that before they could compete to represent Indonesia in the Asia-Pacific arena, ITS RIDER Team successfully passed through various national selection stages. Among them, being one of the best in the Indonesian ABU Robot Contest (KRAI) at the regional level and being the first KRAI champion at the national level.

The professor from the ITS Industrial Mechanical Engineering Department added that the RIDER team managed to win the first place title at the KRAI national level which coincidentally was held in 2022 at the ITS campus.

“Alhamdulillah, thanks to these results, we have managed to become the only Indonesian representative in the ABU Robocon 2022 competition,” he said proudly.

Lukman continued, this time ABU Robocon 2022 carries the Lagori theme. It is a traditional game from India, where teams try to hit a pile of stones with a ball. The pile of stones in this competition is replaced by a pole with a ball on it. The robot will get points when the thrown ball hits the ball on the pole.

Lukman explained that there were two bots in a team that participated in ABU Robocon 2022. The two bots are named R1 (Khonsu) and R2 (Ammit). Khonsu is tasked with shooting Lagori and Ball on Head. Meanwhile, Ammit is tasked with organizing Lagori and collecting the balls from the ball carrier.

Thanks to the hard work of the team, the two robots managed to bring Team RIDER to the final round of ABU Robocon 2022. They managed to eliminate all the representatives of India, which consisted of two teams, and dashed the hopes of the representatives. from Mongolia. In the final round, due to the tight competition, the RIDER team only had a slight difference with the Hong Kong team. So the ITS team finally took second place.

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With these results, it is the third time that an Indonesian team has won second place or second place in the ABU Robocon contest. Another Indonesian team had achieved feats in 2013 and 2007, when both were represented by Surabaya State Electronics Polytechnic (PENS).

In 2021, ITS, through the RIOT team, managed to become the only Indonesian representative to win the Grand Prix title or first place in the ABU Robocon event since it was held in 2002.

Lukman explained that in the process this time, the team encountered various obstacles while preparing to participate in ABU Robocon 2022. One of them was that the team had consistency issues in shooting. ball. Therefore, the team must find a way to shoot steadily in a short time.

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“With the right method, Alhamdulillah, the problem can be solved,” he said.

Concluding his explanation, Lukman hopes that all members of the ITS RIDER team can develop their respective potentials, so that they can contribute even better in the future. He hopes that in the future a new specialization will emerge from each developing individual.

“I hope we will always achieve this achievement, so that we can continue to make ITS and Indonesia proud in the international arena,” he said. (CIN/SL1)