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Wiki for ARIAC 2021.

Welcome to ARIAC 2021. This year, the theme revolves around the pandemic. Competitors will be tasked to manipulate products used in the assembly of ventilators. Kitting (or kit building) and assembly are the two tasks involved in ARIAC 2021.

• Please read the Updates section first.

Important Dates

• 22-26 March 2021 - Smoke Test Week before Qualifier Round
• 26-30 April 2021 - Qualifier Round
• 17-21 May 2021 - Smoke Test before Final Round
• 24-28 May 2021 - Final Round

Terminology

• This section describes the terminology used in this wiki. If you are new to ARIAC we strongly suggest you visit this page first.

Updates

• Check this page for recent updates made to the code.

What is new in ARIAC 2021?

• Summary of the changes made since ARIAC 2020.

Documentation

• Specifications of the NIST Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC) and the Gazebo Environment for Agile Robotics (GEAR) software.

Tutorials

• A set of tutorials to help you get started with the NIST Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC).

Qualifiers

• Details of the released qualification tasks for ARIAC.

Finals

• Details of how the ARIAC Finals will run.

Bug Reports

• Improving the software and fixing issues.