Ministry
of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR
Slovak
Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
IT Academy
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 8
M a r t i n
February 28
th – March 2 nd 2018
E V E N T I N F O R M A T I O
N
22th 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
Spojená
škola, Čs.armády 24, Martin
Organizing committee: Mgr. Stanislav Slačka,
Ing.Stanislava Červeňová, Mgr. Jozef Zanovit, Ing. Pavol Bahník
Head
of Contest: Miro Kohút, (0905
521 989)
Head of Jury: Mgr. Pavel Petrovič, PhD. (0915 772 685)
Date: February 28th – March 2th 2018
Súťažné
kategórie: Construction
1. Building robot
from a robotic set (participants bring
their own) to solve a specific task
2.
Robotic Hand
3.
DRON
RoboCup Junior:
·
Soccer - Open League with
orange ball
·
Soccer - Light weight with electronics ball
·
Rescue Line
·
Rescue Maze
·
CoSpace Rescue – simulated version
·
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 (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.
In the DRON category the
teams will build program for a fluing robot. He has to climb to a height of 1m, he stayed there for 15
seconds and landed at starting point, respectively landed to a predetermined location.
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 June 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 210th
RocoCup World Championship held in Montreal,
Canada,
June 17th – June 24st 2018 - www.robocup.org
Preliminary
tourament schedule:
Wednesday, February 628h
2018
by 12:00 - arrival, on-site registration,
accommodation
12:00
- Lunch
13:00 - Opening ceremony
13.30 Construction,Roboticshand, training RoboCup
18.30 - Dinner
19:00 - Construction - Robotic
runs
20.00 – Meeting of mentors and
Jury
Thursday, March 1st
2018
7:00 -
Breakfast
9:00 - Soccer, Rescue Line
10:00 - Rescue Maze, Dron
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Dance,
Rescue, Soccer
18:00 -
dinner
20.00 -
final matches and presentations
Friday March 2th
2018
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 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 Associated school, the Red Army 25, Martin,
036 01 Martin (https://ssmt.edupage.org/). There
will be all food.
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.
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.