歯みがきロボットコンテストと地域連携

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Because of the current high levels of technology, students frequently rely on black boxes for a varietyof systems. Generally, students do not know how black box systems work. To stimulate interest inscience and technology and to develop human resources with creativity, many robotics contests areplanned. However, it is difficult to design major robotics contests that are appropriate for studentswith a beginning knowledge for robotics.The Fukui Dental Association organized the Hamigaki Robot Contest to interest children in toothbrushing . Fukui National College of Technology supports this contest for regional cooperation andregional contribution. In this contest, robots remove a magnet image of dental caries from a toothmodel of Big Buddha . There are two sections in the contest: one for remote control and another forautonomous function. The former includes elementary students with wire-controlled robots . Thelatter includes college and university students with autonomous line-tracking robots.In this paper, we introduce the contest rules and management procedures . In addition, we providean explanation for how the contest contributes to the region. In our opinion, this contest encouragesnovice engineers to further their interest in technology.