Characteristics: In the WRO Future Engineers category, teams need to focus on all parts of the engineering process. The teams get points for documenting their process and making a public GitHub repository. In the Self-Driving Cars challenge, a robotic vehicle needs to drive autonomously on a parkour that randomly changes for each competition round.
Focus Areas Every WRO category has a special focus on learning with robots. In the WRO Future Engineers category, students will focus on developing in the following areas:
- Use of computer vision and sensor fusion to estimate the state of the parkours and the vehicle itself.
- A working vehicle with open-source hardware such as electromechanical components and controllers.
-Action planning and control of robots with moving parts and kinematics different from the differential drive (e.g., steering).
- Optimal strategies to solve the mission, including stability of mission solving.
- Teamwork, communication, problem solving, project management, creativity.
- An Engineering journal to show progress and design strategies.
For teams that are interested in participating in this category a Getting Starting guide was created. This guide explains more about the vehicle requirements, possible technical solution, and errors. Here students can start to get an idea of how-to setup a vehicle for this competition.
Game rules: Download
Game field: Download. The game field may be purchased locally from Blue Ridge Boost.
Competition details are available here: TBD
