NRC CoSpace Coding Challenge (Rescue Category)

1. Team Size

  • Number of members per team: 1 – 2

2. Team Members

  • Primary group:
    • 8-12 years old
  • Secondary group:
    • 13-16 years old
  • Tertiary

3. Software

4. Theme

  • Environmental Sustainability

5. Characteristics (Primary and Secondary Levels):

The challenge aims to bring together students with basic robotics and coding skills and an interest in environmental sustainability. Participants will be required to program a virtual robot to complete several individual tasks commonly used identifying trash bins and collecting them without human intervention. These tasks include obstacle avoidance, colour detection using RGB sensors, navigation, and path planning for sustainable waste management.

The NRC CoSpace Coding Challenge is open to students who have basic Scratch, Python, or C coding skills.

Training will be provided to all participants to ensure they have the necessary skills to complete the challenge.

No hardware robots are required, making it accessible to a wide range of participants.

Assessment of the participants will be based on the RoboCup Singapore Education Framework, and students who demonstrate the required skills and competencies will be recognized with one of the following three grades: Pass, Merit or Distinction.

  • Challenge booklet: Link

6. Characteristics (Tertiary Level):

For this challenge, 2 teams will compete with each other by developing and programming strategies for both real and virtual autonomous robots to navigate, search and collect different objects in virtual environments. Vision system will be used for object detection.

  • Challenge booklet: Link

7. Moving forward

After the learning journey throughout CoSpace Coding Challenge @ NRC Coding Challenge, students will build-up foundations and confidence to participate in the CoSpace Rescue Challenge at RoboCup Singapore Open 2024