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Humanoid Robots Playing Soccer

Humanoid Robots Playing Soccer

About RoboCup

Image result for Humanoid Robots Playing SoccerThe goal of the international RoboCup initiative is to develop a team of humanoid robots that is able to win against the official human World Soccer Champion team until 2050. In some sense the RoboCup challenge is the successor of the chess challenge for artificial intelligence (a computer beating the human World Chess Champion) that was solved in 1997 when Deep Blue won against Garry Kasparow. Currently, there exist a number of different RoboCup soccer leagues that focus on different aspects of this challenge. The Humanoid League is one of the most dynamically progressing leagues and the one closest to the 2050 goal.

About the Humanoid League

Image result for Humanoid Robots Playing SoccerIn the Humanoid League, autonomous robots with a human-like body plan and human-like senses play soccer against each other. Unlike humanoid robots outside the Humanoid League the task of perception and world modeling is not simplified by using non-human like range sensors. In addition to soccer competitions technical challenges take place. Dynamic walking, running, and kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visual perception of the ball, other players, and the field, self-localization, and team play are among the many research issues investigated in the Humanoid League. Several of the best autonomous humanoid robots in the world compete in the RoboCup Humanoid League.

Robot Soccer Competitions

The robots are divided into three size classes: KidSize (40-90cm height), TeenSize (80-140cm) and AdultSize (130-180cm). In the KidSize soccer competition teams of four, highly dynamic autonomous robots compete with each other. Since 2010 the TeenSize soccer competition features teams of two autonomous robots competing with each other. In AdultSize soccer, a striker robot plays against a goal keeper robot first and then the same robots play with exchanged roles against each other. For details on the games, refer to the rules.

League Overview



In the Humanoid League, autonomous robots with a human-like body plan and human-like senses play soccer against each other. Unlike humanoid robots outside the Humanoid League the task of perception and world modeling is not simplified by using non-human like range sensors. In addition to soccer competitions technical challenges take place. Dynamic walking, running, and kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visual perception of the ball, other players, and the field, self-localization, and team play are among the many research issues investigated in the Humanoid League. Several of the best autonomous humanoid robots in the world compete in the RoboCup Humanoid League.
The robots are divided into three size classes: KidSize (40-90cm height), TeenSize (80-140cm) and AdultSize (130-180cm). In the KidSize soccer competition teams of four, highly dynamic autonomous robots compete with each other. Since 2010 the TeenSize soccer competition features teams of two autonomous robots competing with each other. In AdultSize soccer, a striker robot plays against a goal keeper robot first and then the same robots play with exchanged roles against each other.

How To Participate

To participate in a RoboCup event, like one of the several local Open competitions or the annual RoboCup world championship, you just need to follow the respective call for particpation of each event and to apply with the required documents within the respective time frame. A (non exclusive) list of events related to the humanoid league is available, for example, at: https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/league/events/.
For new coming teams it is recommended to participate in a local open competition first, if possible. It is not a must but it certainly helps a lot to develop a competitive team.
If you intend to participate on this year's World Championship please visit the Call for Participation at: https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/hl-2015/call/.

Organization

Contact information for all committee members in 2016 can be found at https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/hl-2016/committees/.

Trustees

  • Oskar von Stryk, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • Sven Behnke, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee members are responsible for the long term goals of the league and represent the Humanoid League within the general RoboCup community as well as to the RoboCup federation. The Executive Committee presents the league and its achievements to the RoboCup federation every year and gets feedback to organize the league. All committee members are also members of the Technical Committee. Executive Committee members are elected by the board of trustees of the RoboCup federation; they serve 3-year terms.
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  • Reinhard Gerndt, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, 1st term, until 2017
  • Luis F. Lupian, Universidad La Salle, Mexico, 2nd term, until 2016
  • Sean Luke, George Mason University, USA, 1st term, until 2017
  • Soroush Sadeghnejad, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran, 1st term, until 2017

Technical Committee

The Technical Committee (TC) is responsible for technical issues of the league along with the Executive Committee members listed above. The TC members are elected annually by the leaders of the teams participating in the RoboCup Humanoid League. The current TC members are
  • Jacky Baltes (Canada)
  • Marcell Missura (Germany)
  • Stephen McGill (USA)
  • Carlos Acosta (Singapore)

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee (OC) is appointed for each, annual RoboCup competition and responsible for the organization of the annual competitions in the Humanoid League. Its current members are:
  • Chair: Soroush Sadeghnejad (Iran)
  • Local Chair: Reinhard Gerndt (Germany)
  • Local Chair: Maike Paetzel (Germany)
  • Jacky Baltes (Canada)
  • Bente Reichardt (Germany)
  • Asadollah Norouzi (Singapore)
  • Carlos Acosta (Singapore)

Rules

The rules of the RoboCup Humanoid League are evolved on a yearly schedule. During the annual RoboCup competition, which is usually held in June or July, the team leaders of the teams in the humanoid league meet and discuss the general outline of the rule development for the following year. Later on the discussion is continued over the humanoid league's mailing listhttp://lists.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/robocup-humanoid/. The final, annual update of the rules is then published at https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/materials/rules/.

Humanoid League Proposed Roadmap

The RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League roadmap has been constituted in the year 2014 to lay out a rough plan of milestones that the Humanoid League would have to reach on the way to the 2050 goal: to defeat the human world champion soccer team in a fair game according to the FIFA rules. The idea of the roadmap is to define large changes to the environment and the gameplay, which take effect every five years to encourage a steady long term development of the league. For each five year min robot height, filed length, max number of players in each team and also duration of play per half have been proposed. The currently three size classes will successively be reduced to two and finally one as the minimum robot heights will be increased over the years. The planned technical challenges for this duration have come at the end. The the first roadmap draft for the Humanoid League is then published at https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/materials/downloads/.

Teams

Information about teams that are or have been participating in the RoboCup Humanoid League is available at https://www.robocuphumanoid.org.

RoboCup Events

All Events

A list of recent and previous events related to the RoboCup Humanoid League is available at https://www.robocuphumanoid.org/league/events/.

RoboCup 2016 Information



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