Ministry of
Education, Science, Research
and Sport of The
Slovak Republic
Primary School Puste
Ulany
Slovak Society
of Electronics
NATIONAL
COMPETITION
in building
and programming robots
for primary
and secondary schools
RoboCup Junior
2014
P u s t
é Ú ľ a n y
April 10 th – 12 th 2014
E V E N T I N F O R M A T I O N
19th annual contest in
building and programming robots
for primary and secondary schools
Contest goals: development of
free-time activities, creativity, knowledge, and skills of young generation in
the area of construction and programming of automation and cybernetics systems
and control of technological processes.
Contest organizer: Ministerstvo
školstva SR
Slovenská
spoločnosť elektronikov
Robotika SK
Contest director: Mgr. Ondrej Borek,
riaditeľ
ZŠ (0903/ 943 601)
Local organizer: ZŠ Pusté Úľany, Hlavná 86,
Pusté Úľany
Organizing
committee: Ing.
P.Bahník, Mgr. P.Cehelský, Ing. R.Gaži, M.
Mézeš, RNDr. J.Mintál, L.Krošlák, M. Šuppa, J. Pospíchal, Miro Kohút, SSE (0905/ 521 989)
Head of Jury: Mgr.
Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (0915/ 772 685)
Date: 10. – 12. apríl 2014
Venue: Základná škola Pusté Úľany
Contest categories:
Construction
1. Building robot from a robotic set (participants bring their own) to solve a
specific task
2. Robotics hand Merkur
RoboCup Junior:
2.
Robot Soccer
3.
Robot Rescue
4.
Robot Dance
Participants in all categories can come either from the primary or secondary schools, they will be evaluated separately. The same age limits as in the international competition have to be respected.
In the category
Construction, the teams will build,
program, and debug/test their robot from their own robot construction set (its
type is not limited) so that the robot will satisfy the requirements of the
task specified after the contest will start.
The scoring will be
announced at the start of the contest and the Jury will take into account the
differences of the construction sets used, if needed.
The RoboCup Junior categories will be evaluated in two separate age
categories:
· Primary: teams in which all the members have up to 14 years
included (decisive date of birth is June 30th, from the July 1st
onwards is team considered as seconday)
· Secondary: teams in which all the members have between 14 to 19
years included (the same decisive date is applied). Note that including team
member older than 19 years is a violation of international rules.
Competiton will be run according to international rules (www.robocup.org) with some restrictions/adjustments. Only
change is in the duration of robotic Soccer games. These will last 2 x 5
minutes.
Winning teams from Slovakia in the RoboCup categories advance
to the 19th RocoCup World Championship held in João Pessoa,
Brasil, July 19th – July
25st, 2014. www.robocup.org or
Časový plán:
Thursday 10 . 4. 2014
do 12:00 - arrival, on-site registration, accommodation
12:00 -
lunch
13:00 - opening
ceremony
- humanoid robot NAO
Aldebaran Robotics (www.eTechnology.sk)
13.30 - Construction, Robotics hand Merkur
18.30 - dinner
19:00 -
Construction runs
19.30 - social or robotic program
Friday 11. 4. 2014
7:00 - breakfast
8:00 - Soccer,
Rescue A
10:00 - Rescue B
13:00 - lunch
14:00 -
Dance, Rescue, Soccer
18:00
- dinner
20.00
- final matches and presentations
Sobota 12. 4. 2014
7:00 - breakfast
8:00 – award ceremony
10:00 - departure
The time schedule is subject to change and any changes
will be announced in advance.
Registration:
Registration link is provided at the contest organizer website www.skse.sk
The registration fee for all categories is 0,- €.
The fee for food and accommodation is 30
€ per person, payable by bank
transfer to the account in UniCredit Bank, account number: 6601031002 /1111,
include the school ZIP code in the payment details. IBAN: SK44 1111 0000 0066
0103 1002, SWIFT (BIC):UNCRSKBX.
Other important
information:
Every participant (or their parents) have to agree with publishing
photographic materials, construction details of their models, and programs used
in their robots in order to allow other teams to continue and thus foster
development of even better designs, programs, sensors, and technologies.
Every team should bring their own robotic constrction
set for the category construction or their own robot for the RoboCup
categories.
The number of teams per school is not limited. The
number of members in team is not limited. A team may participate in multiple
categories, however, they should have enough man-power not to make trouble in
the time schedule.
Contest will be held at Primary School Puste Ulany – www.zspustulany.edu.sk. There will be food from
lunch April 10. to breakfast April 12 2014.
Accommodation for participants
will be provided at the bungalows houses in Holiday Village at the Sun lake in
Senec (www.hv.sk) Each
bungalov has apartments - it contans separate doble-bad rooms with rich
accessories.
Transportation
from accomodation to schoole is provided by organizer.
The organizing committee has the right to make
modifications in the time schedule as needed. The local organizers will provide
the accommodation, and meals in the school canteen, the venue, and the contest
arenas for the registered participants. Registration is open until midnight on April 6nd 2014.
The fee includes accommodation and food. The travel
expenses have to be covered by the participanting teams themselves.
Shall any material loss be caused by improper behavior of the participants,
they will have to be refunded. The organizer does not take the responsibility
for the personal items and equipment of the participants.