Ministry of Education,
Science, Research
and Sport of The Slovak
Republic
Town Liptovský Mikuláš
Secondary School of Polytechnics
Liptovský Mikuláš
Slovak Society of Electronics
NATIONAL COMPETITION
in building and programming robots
for primary and secondary schools
RoboCup Junior 2016
Liptovský
Mikuláš
April
13 th – 15 th 2016
E V E N T I N
F O R M A T I O N
21th 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: Ministry
of Education of The Slovak Republic
Slovak Society of Electronics
Town
Liptovský Mikuláš, Robotika SK
Contest director: Miro
Kohút, (0905/ 521 989)
Local organizer: Secondary School of Polytechnics
Demänovská 669, 03101
Liptovský Mikuláš
Organizing committee: Mgr. P.Cehelský, Ing.
R.Gaži, M. Mézeš, RNDr. J.Mintál,
L.Krošlák, M. Šuppa, J. Pospíchal
Head of Jury: Mgr.
Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (0915/ 772 685)
Date: April 13 th – 15 th 2016
Venue: Secondary School of Polytechnics Liptovský Mikuláš
Contest categories:
Construction
1. Building robot from a robotic set (participants bring
their own) to solve a
specific task
2. Robotic hand Merkur
RoboCup Junior:
1. Soccer - LightWeight League / Open League
2. Rescue – Rescue
Line / Rescue Maze / CoSpace
3. 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 using 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
(including; decisive date of birth is June 30th, team with a member
born before July 1st 2002 is considered as seconday)
· Secondary: teams in which all the members have between 14 to 19
years (including; the same decisive date is applied). Note that including a
team member older than 19 years is a violation of the international rules.
Competiton will be run according to international
rules (www.robocup.org) with some restrictions/adjustments. The 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 Leipzig
Germany, June 30th – July 4st 2016 www.robocup.org or
Preliminary
tourament schedule:
Wednesday, April 13th
2016
by 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: robotic
runs
19.30 - social or robotic program
Thursday, April 14th
2016 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
Friday 15. 4. 2016 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 39 €
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 Secondary School of Polytechnics
in Liptovský
Mikuláš.
There will be food starting lunch April 13th ending breakfast
April 15th.
Accommodation for participants
will be provided at the same school in student dormitory arranged as a hostel.
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 10, 2016.
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.