• Schedule: November 18(Fri)-20(Sun), 2016
• Venue: Gymnasium in Hino Campus, MEISEI UNIVERSITY
• Organizer: New Technology Foundation
• Co-Organizer:MEISEI UNIVERSITY
• Executive committee: Chairman Prof.Junichi Iijima (MEISEI Univ.)
• support: Micro Mouse Supporters, Hino City Commerce and Industry Association, Tama Shinkin Bank
• Cosponsor: Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology, Hino City, Hino City Board of Education, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Robotics Society of Japan
• Gold Sponser:Ltd. RT Corporation , Autodesk Inc. , ORIENTAL MOTOR Co. , cocoro SB Corp. , DENSO CORPORATION , BANDAI NAMCO Group. , Life Robotics Inc.
• Sponsored by:Ftech Co. Ltd. , MID Academic Promotions inc. , KAWADA ROBOTICS CORPORATION, Microtech Laboratory Inc.
• Mediasponsor:SMATS Corporation , HIROBO Group
• Awards is offered by:Futaba Corporation , maxon motor ag
• Contest pamphlet(Race order table-day notes, etc.):pdf
• Tentative Programs：
• November 18(Fri):
  • 13:30 - 18:00 Test run
  
  
• November 19(Sat):
  • 08:50 - 09:40 Registration
  • 09:00 - 10:00 Micromouse inspection
  • 09:30 - 09:50 Opening Ceremony
  • 09:40 - 10:20 Robotrace inspection (place your tracer by 9:35)
  • 10:00 - 12:00 Micromouse Classic Preliminary Contest Freshman Class
  • 10:00 - 15:00 Micromouse Classic Preliminary Contest Expert Class
  • 10:30 - 15:30 Robotrace Preliminary Contest
  • 12:20 - 12:30 Annoucement of Micromouse Freshman Class finalist
  • 12:30 - 13:00 Lunch break for all the contest
  • 13:00 - 15:30 Micromouse Half-size Preliminary Contest Expert Class
  • 13:00 - 16:30 Micrmouse Classic Contest Freshman Class Final
  • 17:30 - 18:20 Awarding Ceremony・Finalists annoucement
  • 18:30 - 20:30 Mouse Party
  
  
• November 20(Sun):
  • 08:50 - 09:20 Registration
  • 09:00 - 10:00 Micromouse inspection
  • 09:20 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
  • 09:30 - 11:30 Robotrace Contest Final
  • 10:00 - 12:30 Micromouse Half-size Contest Freshman Class
  • 11:00 - 15:00 Micromouse Classic Contest Expert Class Final
  • 12:30 - 13:00 Lunch break for all the contest
  • 13:00 - 16:00 Micromouse Half-size Contest Expert Class Final
  • 16:40 - 17:20 Technology Exchange Meetings
  • 17:30 - 18:30 Awarding & Closing Ceremony

information about mouse party

We plan to have mouse party to share technical informations and communication. We are happy to meet at the party.

• Date: Nov. 19th 2016, after awarding ceremony around 18:30 (tentative)
• Site: Restaurant of Univ.

Pre-registration has finished. You can join the party if you didn't register. Please come to party.

Registration Schedule and fees

===Registration===

Registration has been closed 2016. Sep. 30. We are happy to meet many participants.

Please complete your registration to send technical sheet.
Technical sheet deadline is October 31(Mon), 2016 JST.
*You please register the technical data afterwards. You begin it and become the official participation application thereby
The following are key dates :

• Application form open : September 1(Thu), 2016 JST.
• Entry deadline : September 30(Fri),2016 JST.
• Technical sheet deadline: October 31(Mon), 2016 JST.
• Registration fee:
  
  • Adult: 3,000JPY
  • Students (including Ph.D candidates): 2,000JPY
  • High School, Jr. High, Special school and College of technology: 1,000JPY
  • MouseParty: fee and registration will be open around competition
    Mouse Party has organized this year. Date will be 19st(sat) Nov 2016.From 18:30~(after the awards ceremony)

Important Notice about contest

Payment will be credit only for abroad contestant (Jul. 2016)

We'll employ credit card payment system from this year for All Japan Micromouse Contest 2016. You can pay by credit card when you completed entry sheet.

The sensor used in recording the measurement system (Sep.2016)

Recording the measurement of each contest uses a light sensor sold by Omron Corporation ( fiber sensor / photoelectric sensor ) . However , it seems the light emitted from the LED mounted on the robot interferes with the sensor , there is a robot can not be performed measurement . So , it was its own investigation at the Executive Committee , the modulation frequency in these light sensors , became the results as follows .

MicroMouse Contest : 20kHz
RoboTrace Contest : 15kHz

For such a light sensor , so that the interference by the light emission of the robot side sensor does not occur , thank you to design and manufacture caution.
It should be noted that , if the sensor interference or the like occurs , you might disadvantage occurs for the athlete . That it can not respond to the claim about the disadvantage that due to such a sensor interference.

Replacement of surface Robotrace board (Jul. 2016)

Robotrace board will be changed surface painting and coating because of maintenance. Replaced boards are used from Student Contest and All Japan Micromouse Contest 2016. Painting liquid is the same to micromouse base. The paint name is "mat black" made by NipponPaint. Please refer to manufacturer site here

Originality and Similarity concerning competition

We hope to join various participants, from beginner to experts who challenges cutting edge technologies. Add to say, we also hope to have originality for each robot to compete according to our policy “to respect original technology among participants.” Therefore, we remove robots having similarity to advance finals.

As you know, there is a big issue to make clear standard to judge similarity of technical method and shapes of robot. It is also hard to remove similarity automatically.

View of these situation, we decided to apply following rules to remove similarity to keep our policy and fairness. Thank you for your understanding.

• Only one robot from 1 group who share ideas and technologies can advance to the finals. (for example, the same robot but different software and so on. Because similarity of robot comes from sharing ideas.) Please make sure to develop “original” robot if you aim to win. In case of school and so on, we strongly recommend to lead members to add originality to robot.
• As the result, judges decide “similar robot” to remove from finals. In this case, judges show all of robots as similar reference robots. However, robot can advance to finals in case of judges thinking the similar robot to be evaluated in finals. Please make sure not to get any award even if the robots won in the case of similarity.

About Freshman Class (common classic and half size)

Since 2014, Micromouse classic size and half size have freshman class. Freshman class for half size is new. The competition of freshman is different maze from expert class.

• Eligibility for participation
  
  1. No limitation of nationality, age and so on in order to widen its doors to beginners.
  2. Do not join freshman class if your robot has experienced completion of the maze in any competition for freshman class of the same size.
  3. Contestant who experienced completion in other class, he/she can still join in freshman unless it is different class. (for example, A person who has completed the course in classic or Robotracer still can join half size freshman.
  4. You can't join expert class and freshman class of the same size (i.e.,NG: freshman half size and expert half size. OK: freshman half size and expert of classic size.)
• Please make sure as follows to join freshman class
1. Not to join freshman class if your robot has experience to finish the maze in any competition for freshman class of the same size.
2. You can't join expert class and freshman class of the same size (i.e., NG: freshman half size and expert half size. OK: freshman half size and expert of classic size.)
• Special award will be given to superior robot from judge.Award for freshman class
  1. There is no winner, 2nd and 3rd place.
  2. Certification will be issued with recorded time.
  3. Special award will be given to superior robot from judge. However, the robot is judged to join expert class, it is not awarded.

Goal Position of Halfsize

37th All Japan Micromouse Contest, Halfsize goal positions are as follows.

• Micromouse Halfsize Expert-class preliminary and Freshman-class
  Size of maze, goal position.
  
  • Size: 16x16
  • Goal Region Entrance: X7, Y7
  • Goal Region Size: 2x2 blocks
  • Poles inside of Goal: None
  • Time: within 7 mins
  


• Micromouse Halfsize Final
  Size of maze, goal position.
  
  • Size: 32x32
  • Goal Region Entrance: X3, Y3
  • Goal Region Size: 3x3 cells
  • Poles inside of Goal: None
  • Time: within 10 mins