The Freescale Cup (previously known as Smart Car Competition) is a high speed, autonomous, race of RC (Radio Control) scale cars. The race is part of Freescale’s Univeristy Programs to promote engineering in the classroom. It is open to all local and private universities in Malaysia where students have to come up with a team of 3 (maximum) plus 1 lecturer as advisor.
Background
In 2008, Freescale Semiconductor Malaysia had the first Smart Car Competition which was successfully held on 12 and 13 December at SIRIM Hall, Shah Alam, Selangor. Due to economic crisis in 2009, 2nd Smart Car Competition was postponed to 2010. The competition was organized in collaboration with IEEE Malaysia Section, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Event was successfully held on 4 and 5 December 2010 at DECTAR Hall, UKM Bangi, Selangor.
Starting from 2011, Smart Car Competition is known as The Freescale Cup. The competition has caught the attention of MOHE hence was invited to be part of PECIPTA 2011. This year’s competition is held in collaboration with MOHE, UiTM and IEEE on 14 and 15 September 2011 at KL Convention Centre (KLCC).
Swinburne Participation
This is the first time we took part in this competition. Two teams are registered to represent Swinburne namely Swinburne 1 and Swinburne 2. Swinburne 1comprises of Riady Siswoyo Jo (4th Year/R&M) and Jason Yeo Kok Seng (4th Year/E&E) and Swinburne 2 comprises of Sim Meng Hong (4th Year/R&M) and Jeremy Chia Wei Liang (4th Year/R&M). Both teams are supervised and led by Hudyjaya Siswoyo Jo and Prof. Nazim Mir-Nasiri.
This project is one of the activities in Swinburne Robotics and Automation club and fully endorsed by School of Engineering, Computing and Science. The development of the prototypes started in July 2011. Throughout the development process, the participating students were challenged to apply their knowledge and creativity in robotics engineering in general and control engineering in specific.
The assessment criteria of winning the competition are based on the stability performance and the speed of the robot. Each robot is required to run on two different racing track conditions namely “Night Drifter” and “Day Dragger”. In the “Night Drifter” race, the robots are required to run through the obstacles and complete the track in a dark. In the “Day Dragger” race, the robots are expected to run through a more complex track condition in daylight.
Throughout the competition, there are few strong teams who have the potential to emerge as the champion. They are UMS (Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 2008 and 2010 Champion), UTM (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2008 first runner-up) and Monash University Sunway Campus (2010 second runner-up). This year as a newcomer in the competition, both Swinburne teams have successfully stood up as the first and second runner-ups led by UTM as the champion.
Swinburne 1 (second runner-up) team in prize-giving ceremony with Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr. Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Vice Chancellor of UiTM (second left) and Mr. Soon Chong Beng, Managing Director of Freescale Malaysia (third left).
Swinburne 2 (first runner-up) team in prize-giving ceremony with Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr. Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Vice Chancellor of UiTM (second left) and Mr. Soon Chong Beng, Managing Director of Freescale Malaysia (third left).
From L-to-R: Jeremy Chia Wei Liang (Swinburne 2), Riady Siswoyo Jo (Swinburne 1), Hudyjaya Siswoyo Jo (Team Advisor), Sim Meng Hong (Swinburne 2) and Jason Yeo Kok Seng (Swinburne 1) together with the winning robots and prizes.
Participating
Teams
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TEAM NAME
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UNIVERSITY
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UCSI T1
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UCSI
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UCSI T2
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UCSI
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UCSI T3
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UCSI
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Team A
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UTAR
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Team B
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UTAR
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Peace King
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UTP
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UTP Synthium
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UTP
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UTP MACH5
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UTP
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UiTM Alpha
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UiTM Shah Alam
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UiTM Beta
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UiTM Shah Alam
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UiTM Gamma
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UiTM Shah Alam
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MMU Cyber
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MMU Cyberjaya
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UMS A
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UMS
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UMS B
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UMS
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Swinburne 1
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Swinburne University
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Swinburne 2
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Swinburne University
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iCAR
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UTHM
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iCAR2
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UTHM
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Fast3
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UTHM
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Curtin Alpha
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Curtin University
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Curtin Beta
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Curtin University
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USM Team A
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USM
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USM Team B
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USM
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USM Team C
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USM
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Supernova
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Monash University
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InnoTech
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Monash University
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Gradient
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Monash University
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GMI
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GMI
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GMI 2
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GMI
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MHH23
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UKM
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PHOENIX
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UKM
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UiTM Terengganu
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UiTM Dungun
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UTM J1
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UTM
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Inno Team
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UTM
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UTM J2
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UTM
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Uniutara Experience (UnEx)
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UUM
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UUM-XP
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UUM
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UTeMEX
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UTeM
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UTeM car
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UTeM
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(UPM)
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UPM
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