Why it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa: Experiences from German South African collaborations

Why it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa: Experiences from German South African collaborations. Ferrein, A., Schiffer, S., Booysen, T., & Stopforth, R. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2016.

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Robots are widely used as a vehicle to spark interest in science and technology in learners. A number of initiatives focus on this issue, for instance, the Roberta Initiative, the FIRST Lego League, the World Robot Olympiad and RoboCup Junior. Robotic competitions are valuable not only for school learners but also for university students, as the RoboCup initiative shows. Besides technical skills, the students get some project exposure and experience what it means to finish their tasks on time. But qualifying students for future high-tech areas should not only be for students from developed countries. In this article, we present our experiences with research and education in robotics within the RoboCup initiative, in Germany and South Africa; we report on our experiences with trying to get the RoboCup initiative in South Africa going. RoboCup has a huge support base of academic institutions in Germany; this is not the case in South Africa. We present our ‘north–south’ collaboration initiatives in RoboCup between Germany and South Africa and discuss some of the reasons why we think it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa.

@article{ Ferrein:Schiffer:Booysen:Stopforth:IJARS2016:RoboCup-SA-DE,
  author       = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Booysen, Tracy and Stopforth, Riaan}, 
  title        = {Why it is harder to run {RoboCup} in {South Africa}: Experiences from {German} {South African} collaborations},
  journal      = {International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems},
  volume       = {13}, 
  number       = {5}, 
  year         = {2016}, 
  doi          = {10.1177/1729881416662789}, 
  URL          = {http://arx.sagepub.com/content/13/5/1729881416662789.abstract}, 
  eprint       = {http://arx.sagepub.com/content/13/5/1729881416662789.full.pdf+html}, 
  abstract     = {Robots are widely used as a vehicle to spark
                  interest in science and technology in learners. A
                  number of initiatives focus on this issue, for
                  instance, the Roberta Initiative, the FIRST Lego
                  League, the World Robot Olympiad and RoboCup
                  Junior. Robotic competitions are valuable not only
                  for school learners but also for university
                  students, as the RoboCup initiative shows. Besides
                  technical skills, the students get some project
                  exposure and experience what it means to finish
                  their tasks on time. But qualifying students for
                  future high-tech areas should not only be for
                  students from developed countries. In this article,
                  we present our experiences with research and
                  education in robotics within the RoboCup initiative,
                  in Germany and South Africa; we report on our
                  experiences with trying to get the RoboCup
                  initiative in South Africa going. RoboCup has a huge
                  support base of academic institutions in Germany;
                  this is not the case in South Africa. We present our
                  ‘north–south’ collaboration initiatives in RoboCup
                  between Germany and South Africa and discuss some of
                  the reasons why we think it is harder to run RoboCup
                  in South Africa.}, 
}

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