Robotics

#RoboCup2024 – every day digest: 19 July

fevereiro 26, 2025
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The principle soccer enviornment.

RoboCup is a world scientific initiative with the aim to advance the state-of-the-art of clever robots. As a part of this initiative, a sequence of competitions and occasions are held all year long. The principle showcase occasion is a world affair with groups travelling from far and huge to place their machines by their paces.

This 12 months, RoboCup is being held in three arenas within the Genneper Parken, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The organisers predict over 2,000 individuals, from 45 totally different nations, with round 300 groups signed up to participate within the varied competitions.

Though RoboCup began out as a soccer (or soccer) taking part in competitors, different leagues have since been launched, focussing on robots in industrial, rescue, and residential settings. There may be even a devoted league for younger roboticists – RoboCupJunior – the place individuals can participate in both soccer, rescue, or inventive occasions.

I’m fortunate sufficient to have the ability to attend this 12 months, and, for the following three days, I’ll be bringing you a every day digest of a few of the thrilling happenings from Eindhoven.

Right this moment, 19 July, sees the competitors in full swing. The principle soccer enviornment, boasting a number of pitches, hosts quite a few the totally different leagues which type RoboCupSoccer.

A few of the pitches in the principle soccer enviornment.

My first port of name was the Commonplace Platform League, the place the spherical 5 champions cup match between SPQR Workforce vs rUNSWift was going down. SPQR ran out winners and advance to spherical 6. On this league, all groups compete with an identical robots (at present the humanoid NAO by Aldebaran). The robots function absolutely autonomously, that means that there isn’t any exterior management from neither people nor computer systems.

Commonplace platform league. Spherical 5 champions cup match between SPQR Workforce vs rUNSWift.

The Humanoid AdultSize league is arguably probably the most difficult of the leagues, with many constraints positioned on the robots to make them as human-like as doable. For instance, they will need to have roughly human-like physique proportions, they should stroll on two legs, and they’re solely allowed to make use of human-like sensors (as much as two cameras to sense the setting). On this AdultSize competitors, two robots from every group compete, and the group members stroll behind the robots to catch them in case of a fall. Such a mishap might show expensive when it comes to potential {hardware} injury.

Motion from the Humanoid AdultSize League.

The RoboCup Rescue Robotic League sees groups creating robotic programs with the aim of enabling emergency responders to carry out extraordinarily hazardous duties from safer stand-off distances. In the course of the competitors, groups compete in a round-robin, placing their robots by their paces on quite a few totally different challenges. The main groups following this preliminary section progress to the finals on Sunday. The duties embody navigating in complicated environments, opening doorways, and sensing. Groups might run the machines fully autonomously, or with some assistive management. Extra factors are awarded for fully autonomous operation.

RoboCup Rescue enviornment from above.

You’ll be able to sustain with extra RoboCup2024 information right here.



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Lucy Smith
is Managing Editor for AIhub.