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Just imagine drawing up outside your home, office or a mall and having your car automatically and instantly parked for you, and when you return, having your car ready to drive away at the touch of a button. No tiresome searching for parking spaces, no queues, no time spent waiting. A garage that requires a fraction of space and more importantly it saves your precious time and money!

Think that's Amazing?? Now, imagine being the brain behind such an invention. Techfest 2010 provides you with an opportunity to do this at CityRacks. Design, innovate and amaze the world!!!

1.1 Problem Statement

The task is to conceptualize and design visionary solutions for automated compact car parking system. The particular aim is to achieve maximum parking efficiency taking into account the given vehicle data.

» Download the PDF version of the Problem statement.

1.2 Design Goals

The aim of the design is to achieve:

1. Compact and efficient storage of modern day cars of different types.
2. Maximum utilization of space with reduced time of operation.
3. Reduction in the degree of pollution.
4. A sound user interface system.

Prizes worth Rs.24,000(INR) to be won.

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2.1 The Design context

The user takes his car into a system and is further taken to an assigned level and designated storage with the help of mechanical systems.

• Maximum vehicle capacity: 300 cars.
• Maximum Base Area available : 900 square meters.

The design should be built according to the following vehicle statistics.

Vehicle types:

• Class A [Small and Mid Segment cars] [60%]
• 4600 mm x 1800 mm x 1600 mm.
• Class B [Luxury cars, SUV, UV] [30%]
• 5200 mm x 2000 mm x 1600 mm.
• Class C [Ultra Luxury cars] [10%]
• 5900 mm x 2200 mm x 1500 mm.

The percentages mentioned are the traffic distribution in terms of number of vehicles of a particular type.

2.2 Design Requirements

Efficient design:
The participants must incorporate the following criteria while making an efficient design.

1. A high operating speed which includes the access and retrieval time.
2. Specific arrangement for various class of vehicles.
3. The concept used for arrangement of the vehicles inside the system.
4. Emergency measures in case of a failure of the system.

The participants are not required to do a cost analysis of their design.

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3.1 Abstract Submission

Participants have to submit a written abstract of their design before the competition. This abstract will be used to shortlist teams for the final competition. Only short listed teams will be eligible to participate in the Cityracks at Techfest 2010.

1. The following points must be covered in the abstract:
   • Description of the Automatic system used:
     In this section the participant should describe the automation procedure right from the entry of the vehicle in the parking lot to its stacking and retrieval when called for by a user. No specific technical details are required.
   • Efficiency:
     In this section the participant should describe the efficiency of the design in terms of stacking or arrangement of vehicles.
   • This is for a better understanding of the whole series of process and also helps in understanding how confidently the student has worked upon the whole design as a system.
2. You need to submit 4 pictures of the scaled down model or pictures from the digital production along with the abstract. You can find the details of these in section 3.2.
3. Please make the abstract as concise as possible. Typically, it should not exceed 4 A-4 pages (excluding the front page) on MS Word (Times New Roman font, size 12, with single spacing).
4. Each team is allowed to make only one valid submission. In case of multiple submissions, only the last submission will be evaluated.
5. Submission of Abstract: The document must be named as CR(registration number). Example, if your registration number is 1024, your file must be named CR1024.doc. The abstracts should be sent to cityracks@techfest.org

3.2 Competition Requirements

For the final round, the following will be required.

1. Design:
   Participants are required to submit the design plan, stacking procedure for various class types and automation mechanism in separate sheets. A general collage of sketches should also be submitted to understand the design and thinking behind the approach towards the solution.
   Graphical designs or Computerized 3D model of the system should also be submitted. You can use software like AutoCAD for the same. Please inform us before hand about the software that you shall be using.
2. Documentation for operation and statistics:
   Teams are required to give a rough estimate of operation time (average stacking and retrieval time) of their designs by means of calculations (Variables required may be assumed with good approximation).
   A statistics report of the capacity of the parking design and stacking data for different class types including the size of the system, algorithms or stacking sequence, must be presented at the time of competition.
3. Digital Production or scaled down models:
   Participants are required to submit a scaled down model or a digital production of their design.
   Digital production may only be submitted if they are animations or films (no pictorial documents). Digital entries must be saved in MPEG-2 format and submitted on CD-ROM. Only one file is allowed per entry.
   The scaled down model are restricted to a size limit of 50cm x 50cm x 50cm. Only one model is allowed per team.

Participants will have to make a presentation before a panel of judges explaining how they have made their parking system efficient and if applicable how their methods can be practically implemented.

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4.1 General Rules

1. The organizers will reject incomplete, inconsistent or improper documents and designs. Furthermore, the organizers will not return submitted documents and designs.
2. The decision of the jury shall be final and binding.
3. All entrants are regarded as having a full understanding of the regulations for the competition and as being willing to comply with every rule.
4. The organizers reserve all rights to change any or all of the above rules as they deem fit. Change in rules, if any, will be highlighted on the website and notified to the registered participants.

4.2 Team Specifications

A team may consist of a maximum of 3 members. Students from different educational institutes may form a team.

4.3 Eligibility

All students with a valid identity card of their respective educational institutes are eligible to participate.

4.4 Certificate policy

1. Certificate of Excellence will be given to all the winners.
2. Certificates of Participation will be given to all the teams whose abstract will be selected for the competition. The teams which get disqualified due to disobeying any of the competition rules, will not be considered for the certificate.

4.5 Accommodation

Accommodation registrations are over.

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5.1 Judging Criteria

Following are some of the broad parameters on which the designs will be judged. Your innovation and understanding of the design will result in more marks.

1. The efficiency of the system
2. Innovation and creativity
3. Understanding of the process
4. Quality of design and presentation
5. Height difference between the top and the bottom most point of the design

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6.1 Resources

We have provided the following reference for your help. The CADTutor. Hope you find it useful.

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