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.
A Getting Started Guide was created for teams interested in participating in this category. This guide explains the vehicle requirements, possible technical solutions, and errors. Students can use it to get an idea of how to set up 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