Official RoboCup Small Size Leage

News

• The new referee box for 2005 is now available. You can get the code here and information is located at the referee page.

• The RoboCup 2006 Schedule is now available.

• The Results for RoboCup 2004 are now available.

• The new Committee organization for 2005 is now available.

• Calling all holders of RoboCup competitions to send your links to the adminstrator brettb (at) cs.cmu.edu

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Overview

RoboCup is a competition domain designed to advance robotics and AI research through a friendly competition. Smallsize robot soccer is one of the RoboCup league divisions. Smallsize robot soccer, or F180 as it is otherwise known, focuses on the problem of intelligent multi-agent cooperation and control in a highly dynamic environment with a hybrid centralized/distributed system.

A smallsize robot soccer game takes place between two teams of five robots each. Each robot must conform to the dimensions as specified in the F180 rules: The robot must fit within an 180mm diameter circle and must be no higher than 15cm unless they use on-board vision. The robots play soccer on a green carpeted field that is 2.8m long by 2.3m wide with an orange golf ball. Robots come in two flavours, those with local on-board vision sensors and those with global vision. Global vision robots, by far the most common variety, use an overhead camera and off-field PC to identify and track the robots as they move around the field. The overhead camera is attached to a camera bar located 3m above the playing surface. Local vision robots have their sensing on the robot itself. The vision information is either processed on-board the robot or is transmitted back to the off-field PC for processing. An off-field PC is used to communication referee commands and, in the case of overhead vision, position information to the robots. Typically the off-field PC also performs most, if not all, of the processing required for coordination and control of the robots. Communications is wireless and typically uses dedicated commercial FM transmitter/receiver units although at least one team has used IRDA successfully.

Building a successful team requires clever design, implementation and integration of many hardware and software sub-components into a robustly functioning whole making smallsize robot soccer a very interesting and challenging domain for research and education.

The next International RoboCup competition will be RoboCup 2004 to be held in Lisbon, Portugal in June of 2004. Numerous local/regional competitions will be held all over the globe before then. So get your team started today!

Organization

The RoboCup Small Size League for 2005 has the following organization. The Executives are members of the RoboCup executive and operate under the charge of the RoboCup Trustees.:

Information for RoboCup 2005

This area gives information for RoboCup 2006 on rules, schedules, mailing list.

Competitions

This area gives information on the known competitions, rules and organization schedule.

Resources

There are a number of available resources for building small-size teams. We include the known ones here:

Team Links

There are a growing number of smallsize teams around the world. Click on the above link to see the current known list.

Movies and Pictures

There are a number of movies and pictures available of smallsize teams. If you want your movies linked from this page, please send email to the web administrator.

CMDragons Movies	Carnegie Mellon University's CMDragons team movies.
CMDragons Pictures	Carnegie Mellon University's CMDragons team pictures.
American Open 2003	Videos from the First RoboCup American Open

Last updated Nov 11, 2003

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