Alpha Centre offers challenging projects to students from the School of Engineering. These students undertake Alpha Centre's projects as their final year projects and participate actively in various robotics competitions locally and overseas.

Over the past years, the students have made remarkable achievements in these competitions. These competitions include the Singapore Robotics Games (SRG),
IEEE-APEC Micromouse Competition, All Japan Micromouse Competition and the Sumo Robot Competition.

In order to achieve our third mission "to inculcate an automation culture and awareness of electronics in secondary students and the public" Alpha Centre organises the yearly Singapore Inter-School Micromouse Competition for Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, ITEs and amateur enthusiasts. Since the first competition held in 1991, there has an increase in the number of participants year on year. In the 14th Competition held in April 2004, there were a total of 266 teams from 80 schools, JCs and ITEs, including 3 teams from Vietnam. Please refer to our Micromouse Homepage for more details. 

The Centre was awarded the prestigious "Excellence for Singapore Award 2000 (Organisation Award)" by the Singapore Totalisator Board on 4 August 2000 for our active contribution to the promotion of an awareness in automation in Singapore.

In the new millennium, our strategic thrust will be to develop and establish the centre as the ALPHA Centre for Intelligent Robotics. The Centre will continue to service students and staff across the campus in the field of robotics which embodies multiple disclipines and technologies such as embedded systems, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, machine vision and kinematics.

Updated on 25 August, 2006