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Open Hardware and Software Robotics Competition for Additional Engagement in ECE Students - The Robot@Factory Lite Case Study

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Throughout this paper, a competition created to enable an inter-connection between the academic and industrial paradigms is presented, using Open Hardware and Software. This competition is called Robot at Factory Lite and serves as a case study as an additional enrollment for students to apply knowledge in the fields of programming, perception, motion planning, task planning, autonomous robotic, among others.

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This work is financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within project UIDB/50014/2020.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, FEUP - University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Vítor H. Pinto, Armando Sousa & Paulo Costa

  2. IPB - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    José Lima & José Gonçalves

  3. CRIIS - Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems, INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal

    Vítor H. Pinto, Armando Sousa & Paulo Costa

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

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  2. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

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Pinto, V.H., Sousa, A., Lima, J., Gonçalves, J., Costa, P. (2021). Open Hardware and Software Robotics Competition for Additional Engagement in ECE Students - The Robot@Factory Lite Case Study. In: Gonçalves, J.A., Braz-César, M., Coelho, J.P. (eds) CONTROLO 2020. CONTROLO 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 695. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58653-9_70

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