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RoboCup Overview

Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt

www.robocup.org

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History 1996: RoboCup created by group of Japanese, American, and European Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with a formidable, visionary long-term challenge:

By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team!

Note: 1996 very few effective mobile robots, Honda P2 humanoid robot presented for the first time

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015

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History 1997: 1st RoboCup in Nagoya, Japan (w/ IJCAI ‘97)

• ~40 teams in Soccer Simulation, Small-Size, Middle-Size, 100 participants,

5000 spectators

1999: RoboCup Rescue

• Robots for search and rescue, motivated by difficulties of Kobe earthquake

2000: RoboCup Junior

• Educational initiative, students up to 19 years

2006: RoboCup@Home

• Robots assisting humans in everyday life

2012 Logistics League, 2013 RoboCup@Work

• Robots assisting in industrial environments

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015

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History 1997: 1st RoboCup in Nagoya, Japan (w/ IJCAI ‘97)

• 40 teams in Soccer Simulation, Small-Size, Middle-Size, 100 participants

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015

Today: International RoboCup Event

• 3 - 4,000 participants (Major & Junior)
• > 200 teams (Major only)
• From > 40 countries

International RoboCup Event:

• 2 setup days
• 4 competition days
• 1 symposium day
• Travels Americas, Asia, Europe

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RoboCup Leagues RoboCup Soccer

• Humanoid
• Standard Platform
• Middle Size
• Small Size
• Simulation

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RoboCup Rescue

• Rescue Robot
• Rescue Simulation

RoboCup @Home RoboCup

• Logistics
• @Work

RoboCup Junior

• Soccer
• Rescue
• Dance

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RoboCup Organization RoboCup Federation: International non profit organization based in Bern, Switzerland

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015

Board of Trustees: Current 21  President & 4 Vice Presidents Regional Committees Executive Committee (2-4

per league)

Technical Committee

(per league)

Organizational Committee

(per league)

Teams (per league, highly international, diverse and cooperative) International Advisory Board

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Impact on Science

• Pioneering benchmarking of robotics and AI research through

competitions

• Ten thousands of scientific publications at renowned

international conferences in robotics and artificial intelligence

• IEEE IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award
• Annual RoboCup Symposium:

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Impact on Technology

• Many open source developments from RoboCup teams, used by many other

research groups inside and outside RoboCup

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• Basis technology of Kiva Systems

developed in Small Size Robot League.

• Quince robot used in Fukushima

2011 has been developed and tested in RoboCup.

• Aldebaran started

successful humanoid Nao robot in RoboCup.

• Motors from ROBOTIS were first widely used in
• RoboCup. DARwIn-OP and NimbRo-OP robots have

been developed together with RoboCup teams.

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Impact on Education

Unique soft skills training

• In multi-disciplinary teams participants develop

internationally competitive, highly complex R&D projects

• bserving strict deadlines

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Regional Committee

• A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from

any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth “region”) with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a “RoboCup Regional Committee.”

• Purposes:

1. Promote RoboCup within your region. 2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. 6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems (names & logos) in your region

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Summary

• Since 1997 RoboCup has developed as the

world's leading, largest and most sustainable competition for intelligent robots driven by a large worldwide community.

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015

www.robocup.org

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Workshop Agenda

• 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Introduction (Organizers)
• 09:10 - 09:30: RoboCup Overview (Oskar von Stryk)

09:30 - 09:50: Humanoid League (Reinhardt Gerndt) 09:50 - 10:10: Standard Platform League (Rico Tilgner) 10:10 - 10:30: 3D-Soccer Simulation League (Klaus Dorer)

• 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
• 11:00 - 11:20: Rescue Robot League (Johannes Pellenz)

11:20 - 11:40: RoboCup @Home League (Paul Plöger) 11:40 - 12:00: Logistics League (Ulrich Karras) 12:00 - 12:20: RoboCup @Work League (Walter Nowak)

• 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch in workshop room with all speakers
• 14:00 - 16:00: Parallel small group workshops in the team areas (Hall 1)

depending on specific league interests of participants

• 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
• 16:30 - 17:30: Final round of all participants (workshop room Tessenowgarage 1)

RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015