Berlin United - Nao Team Humboldt

At the clinic

Paul — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:25:04 +0000

Our robots´s are in Paris at the Nao clinic. For the first time in our team´s history we have sent them to Aldebaran so early. We hope that they will be ready for the RoboW. The good thing is that our simulator is almost ready, so we can keep working! Moreover the Naos are not only in Paris for repairing, but also for the headupgrade! Yes, you read right: H-E-A-D-U-P-G-R-A–D-E! Soon we will be able to process the whole image and not only some scanlines :)

IranOpen 2012

Denis — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:29:33 +0000

We arrived on thursday at 6 am in the morning. From the airport a member of the Iran Open picked us up and we got right to the convention hall for the “set up”. But set up wasn’t the thing, we had in mind. After sleeping for a few hours on the carpet and the desk, we just managed to write the tasks we had to do later. Just Paul and Micha did some work on the behavior in the night hours.

The second day was more productive but less easy going, because the problems increased exponentially: No nao had a stable walk and when they fell down, half of the robots couldn’t manage to stand up. After we figured out that one Nao had a broken food sensor and 2 couldn’t connect with the Soccer Server, we gave up and got to the hotel. On the second day we recognized, that another Nao had also a broken foot sensor, so we had to turn off the stabilizator module. At the end of the day all of them could connect to the Soccer Server, walk forward, more or less with difficulties and stand up. But we weren’t the only team with problems with the walk and broken robot parts. We won the first match versus the Greek guy 1:0. The second match versus the Dutch team was a drawn without goals.

The exhibition is a really big one, with big public interest and participation. So we get surrounded every time by a crowd of visitors asking questions and are interviewed by the press frequently. Today we lost a match against one of the Iran teams 1:0. And more bad news: one of the robot cricked of his head, he doesn’t boot and can’t turn his head left :(. Versus the Chinese Team we play a drawn, but the chinese played with only one player which couldn’t see nor walk, we had frequently no Players on the field because of the problems.

TLTD: Broken robots, Nao vs. Greek: 1:0, vs. Dutch: 0:0, vs. Iran1: 0:1, vs. China: 0:0. No working walk! Motivation down :(

Welcome to a new team member

Scheune — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:44:25 +0000

Due to the fact that four of our team members participate in Iran Open, there is now some space left in our lab. We decided to introduce another team member to fill the gap ;)

First game is over

Paul — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:39:27 +0000

We lost the first game 2-3. It was very close and we did look good. The only bad thing was that we played 80% of the time with only 3 robots and 30% with only two: Battery problems and a broken stick made our game impossible to win. After our 1:0 advantage we could make it again to 2:1. But again without four working robots you can´t beat the world´s #4: HTWK!

Anyway, we can play and we proved it :)

Schedule

Paul — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:59:02 +0000

In a few minutes we will have our first game. We are still waiting for our repaired robot from Aldebaran, so with bad luck, we can play with only 3 Naos :(
We play in a group with HTWK Leipzip and DAInamite. The complete schedule for all teams can be found at tzi.de

We will keep you up to date!

We arrived

Paul — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:49:32 +0000

This year we arrived as one of the first teams. We seem to be better prepared than the years before :D Without Marcus (who had an injury) and without Heinrich (who is going to Seattle) we are not having really a chance, but anyway, we are here, we are willed to win and we do not look that bad!

More infos soon!

(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.

The Doors would say it like this…

Paul — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:49:30 +0000

We won and lost once. Not enough to come forth. The Doors would say:

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end

Nothing more to say :(