Abstract
Robotic competitions in the context of the Robocup festival or similar, obey to a certain set of challenges that demands for each robot to have a set of sensors and actuators adapted to different environments. In this paper we present the Azoresbot robot that was developed in the context of a robotic regional competition which intends to foster the learning of robotics and programming in Azorean schools. In the context of this festival, the robot was presented as a kit that teams had to build, to test and, then, to program for different competitions. This robot was created thinking in the modularity and adaptability needed to the different challenges in the competitions.
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Some authors argue that this idea must be further studied as it seams that there is a different perception depending on students’ gender [11].
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See RoboOeste (http://www.robooeste.educacaotorresvedras.com/) and RoboParty (https://www.roboparty.org/).
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This challenge was created by André Dias and Vitor Cerqueira from Academia de Robótica/ISEP (https://web.fe.up.pt/~robotica2019/index.php/en/first-challenger3.).
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This project was supported by Luso-American Foundation, project 119/2019 and by the Azores Government by the Regional Department of Science and Technology, PRO-SCIENTIA financial program. The authors wish to thanks to PROBOT - Associação de Programação e Robótica dos Açores and to the other organizations and volunteers that supported the event and the robot design.
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Cascalho, J. et al. (2020). Azoresbot: An Arduino Based Robot for Robocup Competitions. In: Silva, M., Luís Lima, J., Reis, L., Sanfeliu, A., Tardioli, D. (eds) Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1092. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4_44
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