| Current season or competition: Pirate Plunder 2011 Student Robotics season |
|
| Sport | Robotics-related games |
|---|---|
| Founded | University of Southampton |
| Sponsor(s) |
University of Southampton's ECS Southampton University Community Volunteering |
| Official website | www.studentrobotics.org |
Student Robotics is a volunteer based organisation that runs an annual robotics competition for 16-18 year-olds [1][2].
The group was founded at the University of Southampton in 2006, and is still primarily run by students from the University of Southampton[3] today. Students at the University of Bristol[4] and Grenoble INP[5] joined the project in 2010. The project is funded through sponsorship.
Contents |
The competition is held every year in April. Participating teams are introduced to the competition, as well as given their kit at a "KickStart" event at the beginning of the academic year in October. The competition rules mandate that the robots are autonomous, rather than remote controlled.
The group develops a "robotics kit" to aid teams through the competition[6]. The current revision of the kit uses a BeagleBoard as its central controller. The kit includes a webcam, as well as software to process the imagery from it for use in the robot control software.