Abstract
In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward the use of educational robots to foster interest in STEAM and support collaborative learning. On the other hand, competitions are considered to be powerful incentives for humans to become strongly involved in a specific topic. In particular, in robotics, several competitions have been proposed in the context of Open Robotics where teams must create their own robots and test them in proposed environments. In this work, we present a new competition for a robot where a volcano scenario is used as a support for the activity, explaining the objectives and why using this scenario can be an interesting challenge for the educational robotics activity.
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We thanks to our colleagues Manuel Silva, José Lima and Vitor Pinto for the fruitfully discussions and their contribution for the idea of the Volcano competition. This work is part of the project supported by Governo Regional dos Açores: PRO-SCIENTIA M3.4.B/PRO ROBÓTICA/001/2021
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Funk, M.G., Cascalho, J., Pedro, F., Behr, A., Medeiros, P., Mendes, A.B. (2023). Climbing a Volcano: A New Robotic Competition. In: Cascalho, J.M., Tokhi, M.O., Silva, M.F., Mendes, A., Goher, K., Funk, M. (eds) Robotics in Natural Settings. CLAWAR 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15226-9_39
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