Publication date:
2018/04/17
Pupils from the second level of primary schools and corresponding classes of secondary schools are traditionally competing in the spring part of the Robocompetion, which is currently entering its 10th year. The Lego Robots by the pupils of elementary schools will compete for victory at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at CTU. There are 111 teams in the finals, 30 more than last year. Because of limited capacity, the final competition must be held in two rounds, Thursday 19 April and Friday 20 April, always at 11.00 in Zenger's lecture hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Charles Square.
The organizer of the Robocompetition is the team from the Department of Control Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and their successful concept will celebrate its 10th anniversary of existence. Because of the great interest of primary schools and secondary schools, a separate spring category for this age group had to be created. Compared to last year when 81 teams competed with their robots, now 111 lego carts from all over the country will move to the two-round finals this year, each with a completely original design dedicated to solve the competitive task.
This year's robot assignment will have the robots completely autonomously navigate the color maze route from start to finish and navigate according to the background color fields. During the final round, the position of the fields will vary. In addition, the robots must carry a dice to be placed on opponent's green field.
Student teams build robotic vehicles from a kit available for primary and secondary schools to rent for this purpose. To build a functional robot, however, is not an easy task, so the organizers of the competition regularly train the teachers. A robotic seminary focused on the practical use of the LEGO Mindstorms training kit, attended by 40 teachers of primary and secondary schools, took place at the Department of Robotics in the end of January 2018.