RoboCup

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition proposed[1] and founded in 1997. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge.

“Competition pushes advances in technologies. What we learn from robots playing soccer or navigating a maze can be applied to industry and help us solve difficult real-world problems,” according to Professor Maurice Pagnucco, Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW.[2]

The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup", but there are many other stages of the competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior". In 2016, the world's competition was held in Leipzig, Germany.[3] RoboCup 2017 will be held in Nagoya, Japan.[4]

The official goal of the project:

"By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.[5]"

RoboCup leagues

Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore

The contest currently has six major competition domains, each with a number of leagues and subleagues:

Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.[11]

RoboCup Editions

Number Year Host City Host Country Number of teams Number of countries Number of participants
1 RoboCup 1997 Nagoya  Japan 38 11
2 RoboCup 1998 Paris  France 63 19
3 RoboCup 1999 Stockholm  Sweden 85 23
4 RoboCup 2000 Melbourne  Australia 110 19
5 RoboCup 2001 Seattle  United States 141 22
6 RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka  Japan 197 29
7 RoboCup 2003 Padua  Italy 238 35
8 RoboCup 2004 Lisbon  Portugal 345 37
9 RoboCup 2005 Osaka  Japan 387 36
10 RoboCup 2006 Bremen  Germany 440 35
11 RoboCup 2007 Atlanta  United States 321[12] 39[13] 1,966
12 RoboCup 2008 Suzhou  People's Republic of China 373 35
13 RoboCup 2009 Graz  Austria 407 43 2,472
14 RoboCup 2010 Singapore  Singapore 500 40 3,000
15 RoboCup 2011 Istanbul  Turkey 451 40 2,691
16 RoboCup 2012 Mexico City  Mexico 381 42 2,356
17 RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven  Netherlands 410 45 3,033
18 RoboCup 2014 João Pessoa  Brazil 358 45 2,900
19 RoboCup 2015 Hefei  People's Republic of China [14]
20 RoboCup 2016 Leipzig  Germany [15] 45 3,500
21 RoboCup 2017 Nagoya  Japan [16] 500 50

The formal RoboCup was preceded by the (often unacknowledged) first International Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament (MIROSOT) held by KAIST in Taejon, Korea, in November 1996. This was won by an American team from Newton Labs, and the competition was shown on CNN.[17]

RoboCup Asia-Pacific Editions

Number Year Host City Host Country Number of teams Number of countries Number of participants
1 RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 Bangkok  Thailand

12 December - 18 December

Recent RoboCup local events

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

RoboCup teams

Team rUNSWift competing in the 4-Legged League at Bremen, Germany, 2006
Team CASualty competing in the Rescue Robot League at Singapore, 2010

Media articles

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative". RoboCup. 1995. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.7511 Freely accessible.
  2. ↑ Pagnucco, Professor Maurice. "RoboCup 2019". Business Events Sydney. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "RoboCup WM 2016 kommt nach Leipzig - Stadt Leipzig". www.leipzig.de. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  4. ↑ "Events-2017 « RoboCup". www.robocup.org. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  5. ↑ "RoboCup: Objective". RoboCup. 1998. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  6. ↑ "2010 RoboCup Competitions"
  7. ↑ "Mixed Reality League"
  8. ↑ "RoboCup@Home"
  9. ↑ "RoboCup@Work"
  10. ↑ "RoboCup Logistics League"
  11. ↑ "A New Goal for Open Source"
  12. ↑ See RoboCup 2007 site
  13. ↑ See RoboCup 2007 site
  14. ↑ http://www.wantinews.com/news-8698440-2015-RoboCup-Whispering-Hefei.html
  15. ↑ http://www.leipzig.de/news/news/robocup-wm-2016-kommt-nach-leipzig/
  16. ↑ http://robocup2017.org/eng/
  17. ↑ http://www.newtonlabs.com/soccer/

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