RoboCup

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A four legged league game from RoboCup 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.

RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. 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 "Search and Rescue" and "Robot Dancing".

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]

[edit] RoboCup competitions

Team Osaka's humanoid robots

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

The contest currently has four major competitions, each with a number of leagues:

• RoboCupSoccer
  • Simulation League
  • Small Size League
  • Middle Size League
  • Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League), in which all teams compete with identical robots. The robots operate fully autonomously, i.e. there is no external control by humans or computers. RoboCup 2008 included the Four-Legged Standard Platform League with the Sony AIBO robots, and the Two-Legged Standard Platform League with the Aldebaran Robotics humanoid NAO robots.^[2]
  • Humanoid League
• RoboCupRescue
  

  

  

  Warwick Mobile Robotics (from the University of Warwick) robot navigates red step fields, in the RoboCupRescue arena at the 2009 RoboCup German Open
  • Rescue Simulation League
  • Real Rescue Robot League
• RoboCupJunior
  • Soccer Challenge
  • Dance Challenge
  • Rescue Challenge
  • General
• RoboCup@Home ^[3], which debuted in 2006, and focuses on the introduction of autonomous robots to human society.

Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.^[4]

[edit] Venues

[edit] Notes

RoboCup is not to be confused with RobotCub, a humanoid robot project with the aim of studying cognition through robotics.

[edit] See also

Robotics portal

• RoboCup Junior
• Robot
• Botball
• FIRST
• BEST Robotics

[edit] External links

• RoboCup
  • Robocup 2010 - Singapore
  • Robocup 2009 - Graz, Austria
  • Robocup 2008 - Suzhou, China
  • RoboCup 2007 - Atlanta, USA
  • RoboCup 2006 - Bremen, Germany
• RoboCup Leagues
  • Middle Size League
  • Rescue Leagues
  • Small Size League
• RoboCup teams
  • AllemaniACs RoboCup Team, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • B-Smart - University of Bremen, Germany
  • Bembelbots - University of Frankfurt, Germany
  • Bold Hearts - University of Hertfordshire, UK
  • Borregos RoboCup Teams - Monterrey Tech, Mexico
  • Botnia–Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  • Brainstormers–University of Osnabrueck, Germany
  • C-PALB–CJD High School Königswinter, Germany
  • CAMBADA - IEETA / University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Carpe Noctem - University of Kassel, Germany
  • CMDragons - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • dInfoBots–University of Palermo, Italy
  • Dutch Robotics - 3TU, The Netherlands
  • Impossibles Team–Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • Little Green BATS - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Mostly Harmless–Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • NimbRo - University of Bonn, Germany
  • Northern Bites - Bowdoin College, USA
  • Persian Gulf RoboCup Team - Azad University, Iran
  • Plasma-Z, Plasma-RX - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • RoboCats - Ohio University Athens, Ohio, USA
  • RoboFEI – Centro Universitário da FEI, Brazil
  • RoboJackets – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • rUNSWift - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • TeamOsaka, Japan
  • Tech United Eindhoven - TU/e, The Netherlands
  • TecRams ITESM-CEM Aibo Team, Mexico
  • Virtual Werder 3D - University of Bremen, Germany
  • UT Austin Villa - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Kouretes - Technical University of Crete, Greece
• No feel for the ball, on the 2006 RoboCup in Bremen, at signandsight.com
• RoboCup Atlanta Report, the 2007 RoboCup in Atlanta, at SaySport
• Domabotic's RoboCup Forum

[edit] 2006 links

• http://www.robocup2006.org/start?lang=en–Official website
• http://www.robocup.zdf.de–Information from official sponsor ZDF
• http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/27/0,4070,3917691-1,00.html Live streams from the playing fields

[edit] 2007 links

• Robocup 2007 ATLANTA, USA

[edit] 2008 links

• Robocup 2008 SUZHOU, China

[edit] 2009 links

• RoboCup 2009 GRAZ, Austria

[edit] 2010 links

• RoboCup 2010 Singapore

[edit] RoboCup Local Events

• Dutch Open 2006, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• IranOpen 2009 Qazvin, Iran

[edit] References

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