Scientists of Ulyanovsk State Technical University (UlSTU), headed by the Dean of the Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies Kirill Svyatov are developing a system for conducting robotic competitions in virtual space.

"Nowadays the cost of equipment and significant time spent on training to work with it prevents robotics from being mass-produced. At the same time, simulation environments can be used to develop and debug algorithms. To make this direction more popular, we are faced with the task of creating a system which will automatically check that tasks performed by robots", - noted Kirill Svyatov.

The participants will be able to write the controller program code for the robot in the browser and publish it on a server that can automatically track how the robot performs tasks with this code.

"For example, if a robot needs to drive a labyrinth from point A to point B based on geometry, traffic signs, traffic lights it has to do it in autonomous mode and the testing environment has to check how quickly and accurately it has done this task. Since the whole process is automated, the number of participants in such competitions can be limited only by the computing capabilities of the servers on which they are launched. Soon the project will be ready and schoolchildren and students will be able to take part in virtual tournaments", - explained Kirill Svyatov.