Swarmathon

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Overview

The UNM-NASA Swarmathon was a competition that ran between 2015 and 2019 designed to engage students in developing algorithms for robotic resource collection to support human space exploration.,. ”Swarmathon will harness student creativity to solve difficult and complex problems. This is an incredible opportunity for students to develop technologies to explore our world and beyond."

The Swarmathon was a cooperative agreement between the NASA Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) and the University of New Mexico Department of Computer Science in partnership with the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center Swamp Works. The competition ran from 2015 to 2019. The Swarmathon targeted colleges and universities serving minority and historically underrepresented student populations across the US. To reduce the traditional barriers to entry in robotics, participating institutions were loaned robots and provided with technical support. The competition emphasised implementation using the Robot Operating System (ROS) so that the skills developed would translate immediately into industry and research positions. Swarmathon was recognised for reaching underrepresented students, "Airbus, the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), today announced the three finalist projects for the 2018 Airbus GEDC Diversity Award."

The Swarmathon involved well over 1500 students from more than 40 colleges and universities . College teams performed outreach to high schools in their area and mentored high school teams in a separate high-school competition. The high-school students implemented their resource collection algorithms in NetLogo.

Competition Results

The top three teams from the four years of the Swarmathon competition are listed below. The competition had a division for physical robots and for robots running in simulation for the first three years. The final year combined the simulation and physical competition into one. Cabrillo College won the final year’s competition

Swarmathon I (2015-2016)

Physical Competition:

1. Fayetteville State University
2. Central New Mexico Community College
3. Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute

Simulation Competition:

1. Cabrillo College
2. Durham Technical Community College
3. Texas A&M International University

Swarmathon II (2016-2017)

Physical Competition:

1. Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
2. University of Houston
3. California State University-Channel Islands

Simulation Competition:

1. Montgomery College
2. University of Hawai‘i at Hilo
3. Inter American University of Puerto Rico

Swarmathon III (2017-2018)

Physical Competition:

1. Durham Technical Community College
2. Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
3. Jackson State University

Simulation Competition:

1. City College of New York
2. El Paso Community College
3. University of Maryland

Swarmathon IV (2018-2019)

1. Cabrillo College
2. University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
3. University of Houston–Clear Lake & San Jacinto College

Swarmies and Swarmathon in the Media

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