Ministry of Education,
Science, Research and Sport of SR
Slovak Centre of
Scientific and Technical Information
Gymnázium of Viliam Pauliny-Tóth MARTIN
Slovak Society of Electronics Bratislava
NATIONAL COMPETITION
in
building and programing robots
for
primary and secondary schools
R o b o C
u p 2 0 1 7
M a r
t i n
April 6 th – 8 th 2017
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
Annoucer: Ministry
of Education of The Slovak Republic
Slovak Centre of Scientific
and Technical Inf.
Local organizer: Gymnazium
of Viliam Pauliny-Tóth, Martin
Malá hora 3, 036 01
Martin
Contest organizer: Slovak
Society of electronics , Robotika SK
Gymnázium Viliama Paulinyho-Tótha, Martin
Organizing committee: Mgr. Darina Súderová, RNDr.Alica Karkušová, PaedDr. Tomáš Dudík, Mgr. Stanislav Slačka
Head of Contest: Miro Kohút, (0905
521 989)
Head of Jury:
Mgr. Pavel
Petrovič, PhD. (0915 772 685)
Date: April 6 th – 8 th 2017
Súťažné kategórie: Construction
1. Building robot from
a robotic set (participants bring
their own) to solve a specific task
2. Robotic Hand
RoboCup Junior:
1.
Soccer
- Open League with orange ball
2.
Soccer -
Light weight with electronics ball
3.
Rescue
Line
4.
Rescue
Maze
5.
CoSpace
Rescue – only simulated version
6.
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 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 20th RocoCup World Championship held in Nagoya, Japan
July 27th – July 31st 2017 - www.robocup.org
Preliminary
tourament schedule:
Thursday, April 6th
2017
by 12:00 - arrival, on-site registration, accommodation
12:00 - Lunch
13:00 - Opening ceremony
13.30
- Construction, Robotics hand
18.30 - Dinner
19:00 - Construction - Robotic
runs
19.30 - social or robotic program
Friday, April 7th
2017 7:00 -
Breakfast
8:00 - Soccer, Rescue Line
10:00 - Rescue Maze
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 -
Dance, Rescue, Soccer
18:00
- dinner
20.00
- final matches and presentations
Saturday April 7th
2017
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 or mentors) 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 construction
set for the category construction or their own robot for the RoboCup categories
and slippers
to school premises .
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 Gymnazium of Viliam
Pauliny-Toth in Martin, Malá
hora 3, 036 01
Martin (www.gymmt.sk). There will be food starting
lunch April
6th ending dinner April 7th
without breakfasts. There will be also on-site
registration, opening ceremony and awards
ceremony.
Accommodation is provided for registered participants in student dormitory arranged as a hostel, Associated school, the Red Army 25, Martin, where will be served the breakfast .
Transportation
from accommodation to schoole and back 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 March 30, 2017.
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.