Jul 3, 2016 @ 19:43 | RoboCup 2016 |
The 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.
The RoboCup 2016 Robot Soccer Competitions held in Germany from 30th June to 3rd July 2016. The event hosted several robotic competitions and the final results are announced.
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.
RoboCup 2016 Adult Size Robot Soccer Competition result:
| Award | Team |
| 1st Place | Baset Adult-Size Baset Pazhuh Tehran |
| 2nd Place | Sweaty Offenburg University of Applied Science |
| 3rd Place | IRC Islamic Azad University of Ilkhichi |
| Best Humanoid Robot | Baset Adult-Size Baset Pazhuh Tehran |
| Technical Challenge 1st Place | Baset Adult-Size Baset Pazhuh Tehran |
| Technical Challenge 2nd Place | HuroEvolutionAD National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| Technical Challenge 3rd Place | CIT Brains Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering |
RoboCup 2016 Teen Size Robot Soccer Competition result:
| 1st Place | NimbRo TeenSize University of Bonn |
| 2nd Place | HuroEvolutionTN National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| 3rd Place | AUTMan Amirkabir University of Technology & University of Manitoba |
| Best Humanoid Robot | NimbRo TeenSize University of Bonn |
| Technical Challenge 1st Place | AUTMan Amirkabir University of Technology & University of Manitoba |
| Technical Challenge 2nd Place | WF Wolves & Taura Bots Ostfalia – University of Applied Sciences & Universidade Federal de Santa Maria |
| Technical Challenge 3rd Place | HuroEvolutionTN National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
RoboCup 2016 Kid size Robot Soccer Competition result:
| 1st Place | Rhoban Football Club Bordeaux 1 University |
| 2nd Place | ZJUDancer Zhejiang University |
| 3rd Place | CIT Brains Chiba Institute of Technology |
| Best Humanoid Robot | CIT Brains Chiba Institute of Technology |
| Technical Challenge 1st Place | CIT Brains Chiba Institute of Technology |
| Technical Challenge 2nd Place | Robo-Erectus Junior Singapore Polytechnic |
| Technical Challenge 3rd Place | NUbots The University Of Newcastle |