Teamwork Within a University Robotics Competition Program. Challenges and Difficulties

This paper presents the evolution of the teams in a university-level robotics competition program organized as an extracurricular activity at the School of Engineering of the University of Alcalá. The challenges experienced by students and professors involved in the program are analyzed. It has been observed that human factors in the relationships between team members, between teams, and between teams and professors are almost more important to the success and failure of teams than the technical competencies themselves.