1.
RoboCup Competitions
An event named “RoboCup”
firstly was held in 1997 with 40 teams and 5000 spectators. After that the
RoboCup competitions held yearly. The main gold of these competitions is that in
the 21 century, a
fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer team shall win the winner of
the World Cup team.
The main
leagues in RoboCup competitions are:
- RoboCup Soccer: two teams play soccer in 5
predefined league with different rules:
· RoboCup
Soccer-Humanoid with autonomous human-like robots as players
· RoboCup
Soccer-Standard Platform with the NAO robot from SoftBank Robotics as players
· RoboCup
Soccer-Middle Size with pre-defined maximum weight and size with on-board
sensors players (Omni Directional Wheels may use in this kind).
· RoboCup
Soccer-Small Size with pre-defined weight and size. They may process the
information come from 4 located cameras and use off-field computers to control
the robots (Omni Directional Wheels may use in this kind).
· RoboCup
Soccer-Simulation with the artificial intelligence and team strategy for
players
- RoboCup Rescue: design robots for disaster
rescue for social with 2 leagues:
· RoboCup
Rescue-Robot
· RoboCup
Rescue-Simulation
- RoboCup@Home: design robots with the service
and assistive applications with 3 leagues:
· RoboCup@Home-Open
Platform
· RoboCup@Home-Domestic
Standard Platform
· RoboCup@Home-Social
Standard Platform
- RoboCup Industrial: design robots with
applications in industries with 2 leagues:
· RoboCup Industrial-RoboCup@work:
design robots in work-related scenarios
· RoboCup
Industrial- RoboCup Logistics: design the robots in industrial scenarios
- RoboCup Junior: introduce RoboCup to primary
and secondary school children and some undergraduates with 3 leagues:
· RoboCup
Junior-Soccer: which is a soccer play between two teams with mobile robots as
players (Omni Directional Wheels may use in this kinds).
· RoboCup
Junior-Onstage
· RoboCup
Junior-Rescue: in which victims should be identified by robots (Omni
Directional Wheels may use in this kinds).
The Upcoming Events in RoboCup are:
RoboParty 2017:
held in Portugal-Guimaraes from “02 March 2017” to “04 May 2017”.
RoboCup German
Open 2017: held in Germany-Magdeburg from “05 May 2017” to “07 May 2017”.
RoboCup 2017:
held in Japan-Nagoya from “25 July 2017” to “31 July 2017”
2.
Botball
Competitions:
Educational Robotics Program for students in middle and high school
aged in a team-oriented robotics competition.
3.
FIRA (The Federation of International Robot-soccer Association)
RoboWorld Cup:
A robot soccer competition
for young students and researchers working with autonomous mobile robotic
systems.
4.
National
Robotics Challenge
5.
Robocup Junior,
Australia
6.
RoboGames :
