World Ort Organization’s Kadima Mada (Science Journey) Program and the Leumi Robotics Center have joined together to hold the competition that will be attended by 50 student groups from Israel and abroad
World Ort Organization’s Kadima Mada (Science Journey) Program and the Leumi Robotics Center at the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering will hold Robotraffic, the third international robotics competition aimed at imparting safe driving and road safety habits. The competition will be attended by 50 groups of school students (4th-12th grades), eight of which are from World Ort schools in former Soviet Union countries (Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova and Russia).
Underlying the competition is an initiative to reduce the involvement of young drivers in car accidents. The competitors are small vehicle-shaped mobile robots that are operated in situations that simulate road traffic. Robotraffic is a unique robotics competition aimed at acquiring safe driving knowledge and skills. The competition makes use of specifically developed “safe roads”, employing sensors that communicate with the vehicles (robots) on the roads. The sensors return the automatic response of the vehicle to signals, traffic lights, obstacles, road signs, etc.
The main goals of the competition are to impart familiarity with driving laws, good driving habits, a positive approach to safe and careful driving and an understanding of the limitations of the car while driving, and to bring about the development of smart roads with sensors that would reduce the number of car accidents and of sophisticated robotic systems for safe driving. During the competition the robots move automatically, carefully avoiding accidents and observing traffic laws. The competition arena is a model of a road with intersections, traffic lights, road signs and obstacles.
The competition will be held on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 12:00, at the Churchill Auditorium, Technion City, Haifa. Journalists and photographers are invited.