BART LAB Rescue won the 2nd Place at World RoboCup Rescue 2010 in Singapore

On June 19-26, 2010, BART LAB Rescue attended the Rescue Robot League at the World RoboCup 2010 held in Singapore. There were about more than 20 teams, internationally, to attend the competition, including, Pelican United/ Japan, CASualty/Australia, MRL/Iran and a few Hi-Ranked Thai teams (“iRAP_Pro,” Past World Champion from 2009, “BART LAB Rescue,” Champion from TRR2009 and Japan Open 2010, and “SUCCESS,” Best-In-Class: Advanced Mobility from TRR2009).

BART LAB Rescue was advanced to the Semi-Final Round with other 9 teams, internationally, including the 2 Thai teams. The Semi-Final Round required 2 missions, and the results came out as followed: (No.1) iRAP_Pro (Score 465 Points/15 Victims), (No.2) BART LAB Rescue (Score 430/13 Victims) and (No.3) SUCCESS (Score 330/11 Victims). Therefore, only three Thai teams passed through the Final Round.

On the last day, the Final Run, BART LAB Rescue was not so lucky. After searched, found and reported the second victim, our Tele-Operation Robot was stuck in a big hole near by the wall. Anyway, after combining the scores from the Semi-Final Round and Final Round, BART LAB Rescue was happy enough to share the 2nd Place with SUCCESS, the other Thai team.

Prof. Kimura, Advisor of NU Tech-R team from Japan, was teasing when the Finalist Chart was posted, “It’s the Thailand Open at Singapore.” This sentence and the result proved our much higher standard of Thailand Rescue Robot Competitions, which were able to elevate standards of Thai Rescue Robot teams, and which were able to select the best qualified teams to attend the World Competitions, such as, World RoboCup 2010 in Singapore.