RoboCup

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RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup", but there are many other stages of the competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior".

The official goal of the project:

By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.^[1]

Contents

1 RoboCup Leagues
2 Venues
3 External links
4 See also
5 References

RoboCup Leagues [edit]

Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore.

The contest currently has four major competition domains, each with a number of leagues and subleagues:

RoboCup Soccer
- Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
- Small Size League
- Middle Size League
- Simulation League
  - 2D Soccer Simulation
  - 3D Soccer Simulation | Soccer Simulation 3D League Homepage
- Mixed Reality Competition^[2]^[3]
- Humanoid League Humanoid League homepage
RoboCup Rescue Rescue Leagues Homepage
- Rescue Robot League
- Rescue Simulation League
RoboCup@Home,^[4] which debuted in 2006, and focuses on the introduction of autonomous robots to human society.
RoboCupJunior
- Soccer Challenge
- Dance Challenge
- Rescue Challenge
- General

Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.^[5]

Venues [edit]

Venue	Number of teams	Number of countries	Number of participants
RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven - The Netherlands
RoboCup 2012 Mexico City - Mexico	381	42	2,356
RoboCup 2011 Istanbul - Turkey	451	40	2,691
RoboCup 2010 Singapore	500	40	3,000
RoboCup 2009 Graz - Austria	407	43	2,472
RoboCup 2008 Suzhou - China	373^[6]	35
RoboCup 2007 Atlanta - USA	321^[7]	39^[8]	1,966
RoboCup 2006 Bremen - Germany	440	35
RoboCup 2004 Lisbon - Portugal	345	37
RoboCup 2003 Padua - Italy	238	35
RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka - Japan
RoboCup 2001 Seattle - USA	141	22
RoboCup 2000 Melbourne - Australia	110	19
RoboCup 1999 Stockholm - Sweden	85	23
RoboCup 1998 Paris - France	63	19
RoboCup 1997 Nagoya - Japan	38	11

External links [edit]

Warwick Mobile Robotics (from the University of Warwick) robot navigates red step fields, in the RoboCupRescue arena at the 2009 RoboCup German Open

Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart) in the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League at the 2009 RoboCup German Open.

Recent RoboCup Local Events [edit]

2013 [edit]

2012 [edit]

2011 [edit]

2010 [edit]

IranOpen 2010 Tehran, Iran
Latin America & Brazil Open 2010, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Robocup Mediterranean Open 2010, Rome, Italy
Robocup German Open (un-official all-European tournament), Magdeburg, Germany
AUT cup 2010 Tehran,Iran

RoboCup teams [edit]

Team rUNSWift competing in the 4-Legged League at Bremen, Germany, 2006

Team CASualty competing in the Rescue Robot League at Singapore, 2010.

Brazil

Canada
- Thunderbots - University of British Columbia

Chile
- Homebreakers - Universidad de Chile
- ChIta - Universidad de Chile

China
- WrightEagle - University of Science and Technology of China
- AUA - Anhui University of Architecture

Finland
- Botnia–Vaasa University of Applied Sciences

France
- The Three Musketeers - Versailles Saint-Quentin University - Paris8 University

Germany

Greece
- Kouretes - Technical University of Crete
- P.A.N.D.O.R.A. - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Iran
- S.O.S, [ Amirkabir University of Technology, Rescue Simulation Group, Tehran, Iran]
- EmJa ETERNALS, [ IJHS's RC lab, Robotics and Simulation Group, Tehran, Iran]
- S2PLUS, [ Salam Dibaji Robocup Laboratory, Simulation Group, Tehran]
- Positron , [ Positron Simulation Group ]
- ResQuake Robotic Team, [K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran]
- IUST Robotics Community Teams, [Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran]
- MRL Teams, [Mechatronics Research Laboratory, Qazvin, Iran]
- XeneX RoboCup Team, Tehran RoboCup Inc
- Parsian Team – Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
- Impossibles Team–Sharif University of Technology
- Persian Gulf RoboCup Team - Azad University
- BraveCircles - SheikhBahaee University
- PersianGulf3D - Shiraz Payam Noor University
- Persia Humanoid Team - Islamic Azad University Of Isfahan (Khurasgan Branch)

Israel
- BURST, Bar Ilan University

Italy
- dInfoBots–University of Palermo
- SPQR Team, Sapienza University of Rome

Japan
- JEAP - Osaka University

Mexico

Netherlands

Pakistan
- SAVIOUR, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- Karachi Koalas - Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan and University of Technology, Sydney

Portugal
- ISocRob / UInstitute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon TU
- CAMBADA - IEETA / University of Aveiro

Romania
- Oxsy - Sibiu

Spain

Thailand
- BART LAB Rescue Team - Mahidol University, Bangkok
- Plasma-Z, Plasma-RX, Plasma-MK - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
- SKUBA - Kasetsart University, Bangkok

Turkey
- Cerberus, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- RoboAKUT, Bogazici University, Istanbul
- beeStanbul, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul

United Kingdom

United States

Media articles [edit]

No feel for the ball, on the 2006 RoboCup in Bremen, at signandsight.com
RoboCup Atlanta Report, the 2007 RoboCup in Atlanta, at SaySport
RoboCup Istanbul Report, The RoboCup 2011 report by BBC

Sponsors [edit]

2006 [edit]

http://www.robocup.zdf.de–Information from official sponsor ZDF

See also [edit]

Robotics portal

RoboCup Junior
Robot
Botball
FIRST
BEST Robotics
RobotCub, a humanoid robot project with the aim of studying cognition through robotics.

References [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: RoboCup

^ "RoboCup: Objective". RoboCup. 1998. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
^ "2010 RoboCup Competitions"
^ "Mixed Reality League"
^ "RoboCup@Home"
^ "A New Goal for Open Source"
^ See Official RoboCup site
^ See RoboCup 2007 site
^ See RoboCup 2007 site

This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation, footnoting, or external linking. (September 2009)

v t e RoboCup Leagues

RoboCup Soccer	Standard Platform League Small Size League Middle Size League Simulation League ( 2D Soccer Simulation 3D Soccer Simulation 3D Development Soccer Simulation Mixed Reality Soccer Simulation Humanoid League

RoboCup Rescue	Rescue Robot League Robocup Rescue Simulation

RoboCup@Home	RoboCup@Home

RoboCup Junior	Soccer Challenge Dance Challenge Rescue Challenge Premier Rescue Challenge

v t e Robot Soccer Competitions

Competitions	FIRA IranOpen RoboCup RoboCup Junior RoboGames Robot Football

See also Soccer robots Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence

Active inducement prize contests

Biology and medicine

See also: Competitions and prizes in biotechnology

Engineering

Space	Centennial Challenges Google Lunar X Prize Elevator:2010 Space Elevator Games N-Prize

Robotics	MAGIC Micromouse Contest RoboCup IARC UAV Outback Challenge IGVC challenges DARPA Grand Challenge See also: Robot competition

Other	Feynman Grand Prize Virgin Earth Challenge Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize

Mathematics

List of prizes, medals, and awards

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