TY - GEN
T1 - Learning Through Competitions—The FIRA Youth Mission Impossible Competition
AU - Baltes, Jacky
AU - Gerndt, Reinhard
AU - Saeedvand, Saeed
AU - Sadeghnejad, Soroush
AU - Čížek, Petr
AU - Faigl, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Competition design
KW - Educational robot
KW - FIRA
KW - Mission impossible
KW - Wrench estimation
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85174436940
SN - 9783031384530
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 383
EP - 394
BT - Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference
A2 - Balogh, Richard
A2 - Obdržálek, David
A2 - Christoforou, Eftychios
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023
Y2 - 19 April 2023 through 21 April 2023
ER -