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2025 Competition Description – Egg Collection and Sorting
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Overview
The ASABE Robotics Student Design Competition allows undergraduate and graduate students to develop skills in robotic systems, electronics, and sensing technologies by simulating a fully autonomous robotics solution to a common agricultural process.
The competition requires teams to build a robot, or group of cooperative robots, which accomplish a simulated agricultural task. The robots must be fully autonomous and able to complete the task without human intervention. The robots are small, less than 12”x12”x12”, and the challenge is typically executed on a custom-fabricated arena. In past years, robots have been required to simulate counting and sorting, pick-up, pruning, transport, and precision-maneuvering operations.
The robotics competition is, by its nature, a very technical and precise competition. As such, the scoring for the competition is completely objective, and focuses on speed and precision with which the challenge is completed. Robots are not judged on esthetics, craftsmanship, or elegance, which allows for teams to create the most effective solution to the given challenge. In addition to the challenge itself, each team must submit a written report that describes the development and function of their robot(s).
Because the competition is held during the ASABE Annual International Meeting, the competition changes each year to represent an agricultural product of the region where the meeting is being held.
2025 Competition Description – Egg Collection and Sorting
Student teams will build autonomous robots that will race to collect and sort as many chicken eggs as possible within 5-minute trials. Points will be earned for each egg correctly collected and sorted. There will be three different sizes of eggs (small, medium, and large). There will also be “bad” eggs. In addition to the physical competition, teams will also submit a written design report which will be scored. Robot performance and the quality of the written design report will be combined to determine the winners of each division. The competition consists of two divisions: Standard and Advanced.
Preliminary Rules are available at the link below and we invite comments and feedback from the competition community on these draft rules. To comment or ask questions, simple add a comment within the 2025 Draft Rules Document.
Download the 2025 Poster to advertise the event at your site!
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners!
Beginner Division
1st place: Genius (Zhejiang University)
2nd place: Vandal Robotics (University of Idaho)
3rd place: RoboPack (North Carolina State University
Advanced Division
1st place: WOLFadvance (North Carolina State University)
2nd place: Robo-Sky Wings (Zhejiang University)
3rd place: BYU Agrobotics (Brigham Young University)
Best Written Report: SARAL (University of Nevada-Reno)
Useful Resources from Previous Competitions
2024 Rules, Competition Results, and Reports
2023 Rules and Posters
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Participation
The competition is open to all current student members of ASABE, both undergraduate and graduate. There is no maximum number of team members per team and each university may field multiple teams so long as their robots do not share components. Every team must have a faculty or staff advisor who will be their primary contact with ASABE and all competing students must be registered for the annual international meeting and have a meeting badge. Teams are encouraged to obtain funding for the construction of their robots and registration and travel to the competition through their college, student organizations, and sponsor companies.
2025 Registration Form
Registration for the ASABE Annual International Meeting athttps://asabemeetings.org is also required. (Reduced "Early Bird" rate is available until May 1, 2025.
Get Involved!
Are you interested in helping organize, judge, or sponsor the ASABE Robotics Student Design Competition? Please contact the competition committee.
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