Abstract — For four years a robotics festival has taken place

teaching process could help increasing the weak motivation we can observe toward engineering studies. To achieve this goal, one main obstacle is motivating public school teachers to use technological tools in their teaching activity. In this paper we present how to use a large public robotic

description of the implementation used for the Autonomous Driving Competition, from the 2005 Portuguese National Robotics Festival, and the results that were obtained. There is a focus on the robot’s ability to accomplish the objectives of the contest, and how this proved that the concept and ideas behind

. In this study, we tested it in five different workshops of the EPFL Robotics Festival with various activities. The workshops target different age groups and the participants can control the robot via different means: built-in buttons, graphical programming and text programming. At the end of the activities

programming workshop held on the occasion of the 2011 EPFL Robotics Festival. This workshop introduced programming using the robot “Thymio II”. The participants enjoyed this workshop very much, and their attitudes suggest that the public is attracted to such events out of interest rather than pure fun

and the 2007 and 2008 Portuguese Robotics Festival. These results show the effectiveness of our algorithms. Moreover, our experiments show that the system is fast and accurate having a constant processing time independently of the environment around the robot, which is a desirable property of Real-Time systems

We discuss the dialogue modelling techniques in the ongoing development of a dialogue system for multi-modal conversations with autonomous mobile robots. The dialogue system is implemented using Nuance, Gemini, and Festival language technologies under the Open Agent Architecture. This paper

in these events has led the authors to submit to the Portuguese Government a proposal for an annual Festival of this kind in Portugal. This paper points out the advances in research, technology and education, which result from this type of events. Copyright CONTROLO 2000. Keywords: Mobile Robots, Robot

Abstract: One underlying and fundamental issue in multi-robot systems is the control and coordination of several robots such that they keep a particular formation during movement. In this paper we focus on modelling formation of non-holonomic mobile robots using non-linear attractor dynamics

of a situation where robots that were independently developed, by different research groups, manage to co-operate and form a joint team. These robots with different architectures and control software will undoubtedly have to achieve co-operation through some apriori strategic knowledge