
Based on the announcement letter for KRI participants at the national level in 2023 which was issued on June 1 2023, the BANDHAYUDHA team at Diponegoro University passed to the national level in the KRAI division. Previously the BANDHAYUDHA team had participated in regional-level selection and won 3rd place in the robot contest. The team consisted of 17 Undip students consisting of D4 Mechanical Design Engineering, S1 students majoring in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. There are 10 students from Electrical Engineering, namely as follows:
- Bima Arya Wichaksana
- Haya Zahwa Aqilah
- Sirojudin Munir
- Muhammad Daffa Radithya Widodo
- Nindya Puspita Hapsari
- Muhammad Faizul Kirom
- Brian Fari Firmansyah
- Layaalin Mutmainah
- Amalia Inana Kesuma Putri
- Sindi Octavia
Quoted from the undip.ac.id page, the Head of the Undip BANDHAYUDHA Team – Miftahul Anwar said that the Undip BANDHAYUDHA team had prepared a mature concept and design for the robot in the previous 5 months. The Undip BANDHAYUDHA team itself has gone through many processes, starting from researching the mechanisms for taking, throwing, controlling the movement of robots, and others before carrying out the competition. Furthermore, Miftahul Anwar added that the biggest challenge for the BANDHAYUDHA Team during the competition was having to make two types of robots with different configurations, namely the Rabbit Robot and the Elephant Robot which had to be able to insert a circle of bracelets onto the intended poles, according to the rules of ABU Robocon 2023 International as a reference for the Indonesian ABU Robot Contest (KRAI). The challenge is to insert as many bracelet loops as quickly and as much as possible, requiring frequent calibration and trial and error to pick up and throw the bracelet circles accurately.
Continuing to the national event, the Undip Robotics Team is optimistic and trying to improve the robot’s performance based on the evaluation results from KRI Region II. “For this reason, we will try even harder to improve the accuracy, precision, and speed of the robot in completing missions, the hope is that we can become champions on the National KRI, and represent Indonesia at the ABU Robocon 2023 event in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,” he explained.

