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(Deutsch) Infoabend 26.01 – 17:00

mellmann — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:26:14 +0000

Am Donnerstag den 26.01 um 17:00 findet in unserem Labor (RUD 25, Raum 3.110) ein Infoabend zu unseren Projekten und Aktivitäten rund um den Roboter Nao und den Roboterfußball statt. Dabei zeigen wir unsere Roboter in Aktion, stellen Themen vor an denen wir gerade arbeiten und außerdem erfährst du, wie du bei uns mitmachen kannst. Du kannst dazu einfach ganz unverbindlich vorbeikommen und unser Team kennenlernen, es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall!

Hier sind nochmal die wichtigsten Daten:
Donnerstag den 26.01 um 17:00
RUD 25, Haus III, Raum 110

SPL Qualification Video 2012

mellmann — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:47:09 +0000

In this video we briefly present the current state of our research on Nao related to RoboCup SPL. In particular we demonstrate omnidirectional walk, dynamic changing of the feet relation and step trajectory during the walk, player tracking, adaptive color detection, using of visual features for detection of the field side and self localization with same-colored goals.

Now equipped with two similar goals!

Scheune — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:57:29 +0000

Some extra work

According to the new rules for RoboCup 2012, we prepared our soccer field in our Lab and construct two similar colored goals. From now on, all teams should recognize the opponent and own goal not just because of some color coded methods, instead, you should use other hints for deciding wether you should shot or not.

Soccer Field - With two yellow goals.

We are back in the game – for now

Paul — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:56:12 +0000

We may not be at the level of Iran Open, but, we are on a good way on it. We beat Nubots in the penalty shoot out. So we made it to the next round. Now we are in a group with B-Human, Dutch Nao Team and Pennalizers. It´s going to be hard again…

Paul´s proposal to get qualified was rejected by the team: Forming a wall with the robots to get a draw versus B-Human :)

One defeat and one draw with the NAOs

Paul — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:26:47 +0000

After heavy initial problems due to our infrastructure changes, we lost the first game 0-6 and tied the second game 0-0! So wo have to play in the intermediate round against SPQR Chile, Nubots or Edinferno. Let´s hope for the best and work even harder to win this game. At least we did better in the simulation: We lost 0-4 versus Dreamwings 3D and won 2-0 against RAIL…

4th place in the simulation!

Paul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:44:00 +0000

After reaching the semifinals in the simulation, we were kicked out by the BoldHearts which made the first place. Since there were 24 teams this is the unofficial world championchip, so this is really a good result! Offcourse we are a little bit disappointed – especially Yuan who was coding all the nights and did probably not sleep at all during the last 10 days – and we would have loved to be 3rd…

…but as always wishing, hoping, deserving and all that, does not count, but only the scored goals.

We keep looking forward and hard working, but now, there are better things to do :)

And the winner is…

Paul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:28:34 +0000

…Nao Team Humboldt!

…NAO TEAM HUMBOLDT!

It was again a very close game: we tied 2-2 and had penalty shoot out.

The pitty was, that Cerberos had no goalie in the beginning. So after 2-0 we took our time out to allow Cerberos to fix their goalie…

…we are so happy but also tired and knocked out. Now we will enjoy the victory :)

Update FINALS!!!!

Paul — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:42:07 +0000

As mentioned before we had a real hard discussion on the semifinal game against MRL from Iran. They had concerns about a referee´s decision. They claimed there was a local gamestuck (one robot is doing nothing and blocking the ball so that other robots can´t find the ball). This situation then lead to a goal for us. So after the game a real intense discussion about the referee´s decision came up. As result of the discussion we had to decide if and how we would repeat (parts of) the game.

In the end we decided to not repeat the game or a half, because we found, that it was important to follow the rules, which say that the rule “local game stuck” is to keep the game fluent and so had not necessarily to be applied in our situation, because – as seen – lead to a goal. Another thing is that we all agreed to play with Singapore 2010 rules, which claim that the referee is always right. So we came to the conclusion that we would not agree to repeat the game. This said, we are definitely in the finals and are really relieved that the MRL team accepted our decision without hard feelings about it.

The other finalist is Cerberus, so we hope that we can outplay the tie of the opening game :) It all depends on how good our code is working and not on how fancy our ideas are. So we will test the next hours as much as we can!

FINALS!!!!

Paul — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:21:23 +0000

We made it! All the details later. We can already tell that it was f***ing close!

STOP! The opponent is challenging the result, so they are asking us to repeat the second half. We are really in a conflict. What shall we do?

We are in the semifinals

Paul — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:24:47 +0000

We made it through the intermediate round and are in the semifinals where we are going to play against the Iranean team MRL! We hope to win and will inform you after the match.

Until then there´s still a lot of work to do. As here for the goalie.

Programming on the field for the goalie

But not everything is programming: We also have to be referees and give interviews for TV, Radio and Newspapers. So we are always short of time :)