Presentation

          The Fourth Latin American IEEE Student Robotics Competition is an event sponsored by the IEEE Latin American Robotics Council, which promote the development and technological advances in Autonomous Robotics and Mechatronics inside Latin America. The aim of this competition is to join autonomous mobile robotics researchers and students through challenges in different categories including gathering and assembly missions and robot-soccer. This fourth edition will take place in São Luis, capital of the state of Maranhão, Brazil, on September the 18th and 19th, 2005.

          The First Latin American RoboCup and the Second RoboCup Brazil are events sponsored by RoboCup Federation. RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chooses to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries.

          The joint events are being organized by Federal University of Maranhão - UFMA at São Luis, Brazilian Computer Society, Brazilian Automation Society, RoboCup Federation and IEEE Latin American Robotics Council. The competition will occur joint with VII SBAI - Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation and the II LARS - Latin American Robotics Symposium.

          SBAI is in its 7th edition and is one of the most important events of the Brazilian automation community, which includes Electronics and Control Engineers, Mechanics and Mechatronic Engineers, Computer Science and math researchers. The first edition of LARS was realized in Mexico City in 2004.

          São Luís is located between Amazon and the Northeast coast, and is a world heritage island. It is the only capital in Brazil founded by the French. It has a Portuguese Historical Center, along with exquisite local seafood, and is close to one of the most beautiful deserts in the World: “Lençóis Maranhenses”, where pristine water lays lazily distributed onto several dunes.