IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics
This paper presents a robot design competition called ‘IDC Robocon’ as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an intern...
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| author | Ning Tan Rajesh Elara Mohan Shaohui Foong Masaki Yamakita Masami Iwase Shoshiro Hatakeyama Norihiro Kamamichi Libo Song You Wang Qiuguo Zhu |
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| description | This paper presents a robot design competition called ‘IDC Robocon’ as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an international flavour as participants of the competition hail from all around the world. The problem posed to the contestants is to design, build and test mobile robots that are capable of accomplishing a task. A primary goal of the competition is to provide undergraduates with a meaningful design experience with an emphasis on mechanical design, electronic circuits and programming. It is hoped that by placing the emphasis on the design, the course will encourage more undergraduates to go into the field of engineering design. This paper presents the latest 2015 IDC Robocon (the 26th edition) in detail and discusses course of events and results in terms of the educational experience. In this competition, a simulated space problem of cleaning the debris from orbit is proposed for the latest IDC Robocon competition. Teams, comprising of students from multiple countries work together to develop robotic systems to compete with each other in collecting the foam balls and delivering them to the rotating the holder. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1bb597c24644419a6eee37ea974643b2022-12-22T02:53:12ZengMDPI AGRobotics2218-65812016-06-01531210.3390/robotics5030012robotics5030012IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate RoboticsNing Tan0Rajesh Elara Mohan1Shaohui Foong2Masaki Yamakita3Masami Iwase4Shoshiro Hatakeyama5Norihiro Kamamichi6Libo Song7You Wang8Qiuguo Zhu9Advanced Robotics Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117580, SingaporePillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, SingaporePillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, SingaporeDepartment of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, JapanDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo 120-8551, JapanDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo 120-8551, JapanDepartment of Robotics and Mechatronics, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo 120-8551, JapanSJTU Engineering Training Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, ChinaCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, ChinaCollege of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, ChinaThis paper presents a robot design competition called ‘IDC Robocon’ as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an international flavour as participants of the competition hail from all around the world. The problem posed to the contestants is to design, build and test mobile robots that are capable of accomplishing a task. A primary goal of the competition is to provide undergraduates with a meaningful design experience with an emphasis on mechanical design, electronic circuits and programming. It is hoped that by placing the emphasis on the design, the course will encourage more undergraduates to go into the field of engineering design. This paper presents the latest 2015 IDC Robocon (the 26th edition) in detail and discusses course of events and results in terms of the educational experience. In this competition, a simulated space problem of cleaning the debris from orbit is proposed for the latest IDC Robocon competition. Teams, comprising of students from multiple countries work together to develop robotic systems to compete with each other in collecting the foam balls and delivering them to the rotating the holder.http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/5/3/12IDC Roboconrobot competitionproject-basedrobotics education |
| spellingShingle | Ning Tan Rajesh Elara Mohan Shaohui Foong Masaki Yamakita Masami Iwase Shoshiro Hatakeyama Norihiro Kamamichi Libo Song You Wang Qiuguo Zhu IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics Robotics IDC Robocon robot competition project-based robotics education |
| title | IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics |
| title_full | IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics |
| title_fullStr | IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics |
| title_full_unstemmed | IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics |
| title_short | IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics |
| title_sort | idc robocon a transnational teaming competition for project based design education in undergraduate robotics |
| topic | IDC Robocon robot competition project-based robotics education |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/5/3/12 |
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