Systematic Mapping Literature Review of Mobile Robotics Competitions.

Laiany Brancalião,Paulo Costa,Miguel Á. Conde,José Gonçalves

doi:10.3390/s22062160

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic mapping literature review about the mobile robotics competitions that took place over the last few decades in order to obtain an overview of the main objectives, target public, challenges, technologies used and final application area to show how these competitions have been contributing to education. In the review we found 673 papers from 5 different databases and at the end of the process, 75 papers were classified to extract all the relevant information using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. More than 50 mobile robotics competitions were found and it was possible to analyze most of the competitions in detail in order to answer the research questions, finding the main goals, target public, challenges, technologies and application area, mainly in education.

Highlights

Mapping Literature Review of Robotics technology is increasingly present in our daily life and even more in industry.Inside this context, the emergence of robotics competitions around the world has provided great benefits for society
Robotics competitions are an excellent tool for the development of new solutions and innovations, to push the state of the art in several fields, benchmarking and even to motivate students to participate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas and to encourage them to join engineering careers [1,2]
This paper followed the systematic mapping literature review methodology, called literature mapping, which is useful at the beginning of research for the contextualization of ideas. literature mapping aims to seek all the knowledge available about an idea and find, at the end of the survey, the most relevant papers according to your research questions

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Mapping Literature Review of Robotics technology is increasingly present in our daily life and even more in industry. Inside this context, the emergence of robotics competitions around the world has provided great benefits for society. Robotics competitions are an excellent tool for the development of new solutions and innovations, to push the state of the art in several fields, benchmarking and even to motivate students to participate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas and to encourage them to join engineering careers [1,2]. The concept of robotics competitions begins in 1977 when IEEE Spectrum magazine had the intention to make an Amazing Micromouse Competition. Due to the success of Micromouse, Dean Kamen founded FIRST

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