RoboCup

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.

RoboCup Leagues

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

File:Robocup Team Osaka's VisiON.jpg

Team Osaka's humanoid robots

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
  • Humanoid League Humanoid League homepage
• RoboCup Rescue Rescue Leagues Homepage
  • Rescue Robot League
  • Rescue Simulation League
• RoboCup@Home, 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.

Venues

Venue	Number of teams	Number of countries	Number of participants
RoboCup 2012 Mexico City - Mexico
RoboCup 2011 Istanbul - Turkey
RoboCup 2010 Singapore	500	40	3,000
RoboCup 2009 Graz - Austria	407	43	2,472
RoboCup 2008 Suzhou - China	373	35
RoboCup 2007 Atlanta - USA	321	39	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

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.

• RoboCup Federation official website

Recent RoboCup Local Events

2012

• Robocup Dutch Open, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Robocup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
• Robocup Iran Open, Tehran, Iran

2011

• Robocup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
• IranOpen 2011 Tehran, Iran

2010

• 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

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

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

• Australia
  • rUNSWift - University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • NUbots - University of Newcastle
  • UTS Unleashed! - University of Technology, Sydney
  • UTS-USTC WrightEagle Unleashed! - University of Technology, Sydney and University of Science and Technology of China
  • Karachi Koalas - University of Technology, Sydney and Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan
  • RobotAssist - Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sydney
• Austria
  • Mostly Harmless–Graz University of Technology

• Brazil
  • ITANDROIDS - ITA
  • Bahia Robotics Team, Bahia State University
  • Warthog Robotics - University of São Paulo at São Carlos
  • RoboFEI – Centro Universitário da FEI
  • NIPAR - UTFPR

• 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
  • See also Official German RoboCup Site
  • AllemaniACs RoboCup Team, RWTH Aachen University
  • Nao-Team HTWK, HTWK-Leipzig
  • b-it bots, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
  • B-Smart - University of Bremen
  • Brainstormers–University of Freiburg
  • C-PALB–CJD High School Königswinter
  • Carpe Noctem - University of Kassel
  • NimbRo - University of Bonn
  • Virtual Werder 3D - University of Bremen
  • Bembelbots - University of Frankfurt
  • FUmanoids - Freie Universität Berlin
  • magmaOffenburg - Hochschule Offenburg
  • Darmstadt Dribblers - Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • NaoTH - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  • WF Wolves - Ostfalia - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften

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

• Iran
  • 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

• Mexico
  • Robótica UP - Universidad Panamericana Campus Bonaterra
  • Eagle Knights - Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
  • Borregos RoboCup Teams - Monterrey Tech
  • Cyberlords - Universidad La Salle
  • Leones - Colegio Cristóbal Colón De la Salle
  • TecRams ITESM-CEM Aibo Team

• Netherlands
  • Tech United Eindhoven - TU/e
  • Dutch Robotics - 3TU
  • BORG - University of Groningen
  • Dutch Nao Team - Universiteit van Amsterdam

• 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
  • Grupo de Investigación de Ingeniería Aplicada (GIIA), University of Murcia.
  • SPIteam, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Rovira i Virgili University and University of Leon

• 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
  • Warwick Mobile Robotics - University of Warwick
  • Bold Hearts - University of Hertfordshire
  • Edinferno - University of Edinburgh

• United States
  • CMDragons - Carnegie Mellon University
  • ISIS, University of Southern California
  • Northern Bites - Bowdoin College
  • RoboCats - Ohio University Athens, Ohio
  • RoboJackets – Georgia Institute of Technology
  • RoboPatriots - George Mason University
  • UT Austin Villa - The University of Texas at Austin
  • RoMeLa - Virginia Tech
  • UPennalizers - University of Pennsylvania

Media Articles

• 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

2006

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

See also

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