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In 2010, for the first time, a robot competition was organized at the Technische Universitaet Dresden for first-year students of mechatronics. The competition was supposed to give the students a push of motivation for their studies. Four different challenges were developed and combined to a relay competition. The robots were built with Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 and programmed with National Instruments LabVIEW. In this article the project’s organization and implementation as well as the gained experiences are described.
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Stier, J., Zechel, G., Beitelschmidt, M. (2011). A Robot Competition to Encourage First-Year Students in Mechatronic Sciences. In: Obdržálek, D., Gottscheber, A. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011. EUROBOT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_25
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