Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition

Jacky Baltes; Reinhard Gerndt; Saeed Saeedvand; Soroush Sadeghnejad; Petr Čížek; Jan Faigl

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31

Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition

Jacky Baltes, Reinhard Gerndt^*, Saeed Saeedvand, Soroush Sadeghnejad, Petr Čížek, Jan Faigl

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

This paper discusses challenges and opportunities when using competitions in robotics education. The authors describe the Federation of International RoboSports Association (FIRA) competition and, in particular, the FIRA Youth—Mission Impossible, an event targeted at overcoming problems of students consciously or thoughtlessly plagiarizing, by forcing students to solve previously unknown tasks. The paper shows an example of the positive influence robot competitions can have on cutting-edge research, even when targeted at younger roboticists. The FIRA Youth—Mission Impossible 2022 competition, where students had to measure the weight of bottles, and hence the wrench applied on the robot using only proprioception, inspired an initial approach and the creation of a practical test-bed for much more complex wrench estimation on hexapod robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference
Editors	Richard Balogh, David Obdržálek, Eftychios Christoforou
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	383-394
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783031384530
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 2023 Apr 19 → 2023 Apr 21

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	747 LNNS
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	2023/04/19 → 2023/04/21

Keywords

Competition design
Educational robot
FIRA
Mission impossible
Wrench estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

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Baltes, J., Gerndt, R., Saeedvand, S., Sadeghnejad, S., Čížek, P., & Faigl, J. (2023). Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition. In R. Balogh, D. Obdržálek, & E. Christoforou (Eds.), Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference (pp. 383-394). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 747 LNNS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31

Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition. / Baltes, Jacky; Gerndt, Reinhard; Saeedvand, Saeed et al.
Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. ed. / Richard Balogh; David Obdržálek; Eftychios Christoforou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 383-394 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 747 LNNS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Baltes, J, Gerndt, R, Saeedvand, S, Sadeghnejad, S, Čížek, P & Faigl, J 2023, Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition. in R Balogh, D Obdržálek & E Christoforou (eds), Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 747 LNNS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 383-394, 14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023, Limassol, Cyprus, 2023/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31

Baltes J, Gerndt R, Saeedvand S, Sadeghnejad S, Čížek P, Faigl J. Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition. In Balogh R, Obdržálek D, Christoforou E, editors, Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 383-394. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31

Baltes, Jacky ; Gerndt, Reinhard ; Saeedvand, Saeed et al. / Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition. Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. editor / Richard Balogh ; David Obdržálek ; Eftychios Christoforou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 383-394 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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