RoboKing - Bringing Robotics closer to Pupils

Author

Sünderhauf, Niko ; Krause, Thomas ; Protzel, Peter

Author_Institution

Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Chemnitz University of Technology 09126 Chemnitz, Germany, niko.suenderhauf@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

fYear

2005

fDate

18-22 April 2005

Firstpage

4254

Lastpage

4259

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce RoboKing, a national contest of mobile autonomous robots, dedicated to teams of high school students. RoboKing differs from similar contests by supporting the participating teams with a 250 Euro voucher and by not restricting the kind of materials the robots can be build with. Its task is manageable for students without previous knowledge in robotics but offers enough complexity to be challenging for advanced participants. The first RoboKing contest with 12 participating teams from different parts of Germany took place at the Hannover Messe in 2004. Because of its great success, RoboKing will be held annually. RoboKing 2005 has been extended to 20 teams of pupils and offers a new challenging task. More pictures and video files can be found under www. roboking. de .

Keywords

competition; pupils; robotics contest; students; Chemical technology; Computer science; Documentation; Educational institutions; Information technology; Knowledge management; Materials science and technology; Mobile computing; Mobile robots; TV; competition; pupils; robotics contest; students;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8914-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570774

Filename

1570774