Takayuki Matsuo¹, Masanori Sato², Masayoshi Ozawa³, Seiichiro Miura⁴, Masakazu Arima⁵, Kazuo Ishii^6
1National Institute Technology, Kitakyushu College, 2-20-1, Shii, Kokuraminami-ku, kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 802-0985, Japan
²Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, 536, Aba-machi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan
³Kobe City College of Technology, 8-3, Gakuenhigashi-machi, Nishi-ku, Koube-shi, Hyogo 651-2194, Japan
⁴National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College, 3538 Gakuendai, Shunan-shi, Yamagichi, 745-8585, Japan
⁵Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
⁶Department of Life Science and System Engineering, Graduate School of Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4, Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 808-0196, Japan
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ABSTRACT
A marine-cleaning robot competition was featured at the junior division of the Eighth Underwater Robot Festival held at Iwakuni, Japan in 2022. The theme of the competition was “Life Below Water,” which is the 14th goal of SDGs, and consisted of poster presentations on marine-debris problems and a robot competition to compete in debris-collection ability. In addition, questionnaires were sent out before and after the competition to analyze the level of understanding of robot development and SDGs after the competition. This paper reports an outline of the junior division and results of the educational effect using questionnaire analysis.

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Article History
Received 29 November 2022
Accepted 03 July 2023

Keywords
Robot competition
Education of robotics
Droplet density

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