KOMPAS.com – Ten students from November Institute of Technology (ITS) members of the “RIDER” robotics team have won international awards.

ITS Team “RIDER” representing Indonesia successfully qualified for the finals and won second place in the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon) 2022 event held in New Delhi, India. India, by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

ITS RIDER team supervisor Muhammad Lukman Hakim said that before they could compete to represent Indonesia in the Asia-Pacific arena, the RIDER team had successfully passed 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 winner of the KRAI at the national level.

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ITS Team Won Second Place in ABU Robocon 2022 Competition

Muhammad Lukman Hakim explained that the RIDER team managed to win the first KRAI national level championship title which coincidentally in 2022 was held at the ITS campus.

“Alhamdulillah, from these results, we managed to become the only representative of Indonesia in the ABU Robocon 2022 contest,” Lukman said as quoted by ITS website on Tuesday (23/8/2022) .

This time, ABU Robocon 2022 carries the Lagori theme. It is a traditional game from India, where the team tries to hit a pile of stones with a ball.

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The professor from the Department of Industrial Mechanical Engineering at ITS added that the pile of rocks in this competition was changed into a pole with a ball on it. The robot will get points when the thrown ball hits the ball on the pole.

According to Lukman, there are two bots in a team that will participate 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 the RIDER team to the finals of ABU Robocon 2022.

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The ITS team beat teams from Mongolia and India

These ITS students managed to get rid of all the representatives from India, who formed two teams and frustrated 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. Until the final result put the ITS team in second place.

This result is the third time that an Indonesian team has won second place or second place in the ABU Robocon contest.

Other Indonesian teams had achieved feats in 2013 and 2007 before. Both were represented by the 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.

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Lukman hopes that all members of the ITS RIDER team can develop their respective potentials. So that he 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 on the international stage,” Lukman concluded.

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