Keihanna Avatar Challenge 2025
Keihanna Avatar Challenge 2025: Races & Rules
1st briefing session for Avatar Challenge 2025 Tournament
We provide information on technology for works and private teams participating in competitions. The contents include the tasks of the competitors (one pilot and two attendants), competition type, competition schedule, stadium, communication specifications, etc.
Event time: December 6, 2024 12:30 PM ~ 3 hours
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A brass band and avatars will march down Seika Boulevard.
avatar figures made by 3D printer, robot suits, “digital street performers,” and more will liven up the event.
To navigate the crowds, avatars must avoid pedestrians and obstacles. Avatars compete in agility by completing a slalom course, similar to skiing.
The tradition of “Jizo Bon,” said to have originated in Kyoto, is a custom still observed in certain regions of Kansai. It involves paying respects to Jizo, a guardian deity, where children receive candles and sweets—a tradition strikingly similar to Halloween.
In this event, participants use avatars to visit designated homes, ringing doorbells with robotic arms and interacting with the residents.
At the McDonald’s in Viera Town Keihanna, you will shop using an avatar. Once you get a Big Mac with a QR code, place it in the basket at the back and aim for the goal.
A course is set up at the Sun Dial Square. The avatar will overcome three slopes and continue forward. This is a competition where participants face even steeper angles than the typical slope that a wheelchair can climb on its own.
After all the races are over, an awards ceremony will be held at Keihanna Sundial Square. There will be various prizes for participants based not only on their time, but also on their avatars’ appearance, ideas, age, etc. We hope you will come and participate.
If you would like to participate, please be sure to read the Competitor Participation Manual “Keihanna Avatar Challenge 2025 Races & Rules.”
Introduction of the Keihanna Avatar Challenge 2025 competition course
Course layout (Seika Boulevard)
※Cones will be used to separate the spectator and pedestrian walkways.
Specifications of Formula 3 Avatar
- Size: Width 60cm or less, height 150cm or less (length 120cm or less)
- Weight: 35kg or less
- Speed: less than 6 kilometers per hour
- Collision energy: 14J or less
- Any technological means (and combinations thereof) may be used to collect information about the environment (e.g. LIDAR, vision, ultrasound)
- Formula 2 comes with an arm attached to the main unit.
- There are no sharp protrusions that could pose a hazard to pedestrians.
- The avatar must be able to automatically stop in the event of an emergency, such as when communication with the driver is delayed for a certain period of time, or when communication is interrupted.
- If a traffic accident occurs, the occurrence of the accident can be recognized immediately.
- Get disability insurance (arranged by the competition executive committee)
- Two-way video communication is possible with the driver via mobile phone network/Wi-Fi.
- Must be equipped with a basket for sweets and Big Macs.
- 2 caregivers per avatar
- In addition to multi-AP Wi-Fi, we provide communication devices (see figure on the right) that bundle commercial mobile phone networks to provide stable, low-latency wireless connections. The interface to the avatar robot is Ethernet compatible.（https://www.ipros.jp/product/detail/2000711518）
Like F1, participants will compete in teams*.
*Teams are made up of the avatar provider and contestants (driver, two caregivers).
Various aspects of daily life will be turned into competitions, and the competitions will be designed to suit the technical level at the time.
