RoboCupJunior Southeast Regional 2009

RoboCupJunior 2007

RoboCup Junior Dance

Students must design, build and program robots that will dance to a song that is no longer than two minutes in length and robots must stay within a 6m X 4m competition space (the boundary of the competition space is marked by a black tape line). There is no limit to the number or type of robots used, and scenery is encouraged. Awards are presented to individual teams that achieve the highest total score in the following categories: Programming Construction Using sensors Chorography Costume Entertainment Value Additionally, groups are split into super teams, consisting of three to four groups from different countries that come together to form one large team of robots and participants. Each super team may make whatever changes they deem necessary to their original robots and presentations, but they much present both a dance, and an introduction to the judges. For more detailed rules, please visit the RoboCupJunior site. Group: Jasmine Godfrey, Quentajia Small, Natalie Clifton and Kendall Holley

RoboCup Junior Rescue

Students participate in a rescue style competition consisting of a series of rooms and multiple floors. Robots are programmed to follow a black line on a white background and to recognize victims along the way. These victims are green or silver people located along the black line. While traversing the rooms, the robot will encounter breaks in the line, obstacle(s) that the robot must maneuver around, and one room consists of only victims with no line to follow. For each round of competition, teams are paired with another group, both sending their robots on the rescue mission. For more detailed rules please visit the RoboCupJunior website. Team: Jeffrey Glenn, Kevin Graves, Jalecia Sherrill and Michael Clifton

RoboCup Senior Events

Robocup consists of both soccer and rescue components, and subsections within each. For detailed information on Robocup visit: The following video contains footage of rescue, mid-size soccer and humanoid soccer. The following blurbs explain each competition, but for more detailed information, visit the Robocup website.

RoboCupRescue
Disaster rescue is one of the most serious social issue which involves very large numbers of heterogeneous agents in the hostile environment. The intention of the RoboCupRescue project is to promote research and development in this socially significant domain at various levels involving multi-agent team work coordination, physical robotic agents for search and rescue, information infrastructures, personal digital assistants, a standard simulator and decision support systems, evaluation benchmarks for rescue strategies and robotic systems that are all integrated into a comprehensive systems in future.

Mid-Sized Soccer
Two teams of mid-sized robots with all sensors on-board play soccer on a field. Relevant objects are distinguished by colors. Communication among robots (if any) is supported on wireless communications. No external intervention by humans is allowed, except to insert or remove robots in/from the field.

Humanoid Soccer
In the Humanoid League, autonomous robots with a human-like body plan and human-like senses play soccer against each other. In addition to soccer games, penalty kick competitions and technical challenges will take place. The robots are divided into two size classes: KidSize (30-60cm height) and TeenSize (80-130cm height). Dynamic walking, running, and kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visual perception of the ball, other players, and the field, self-localization, and team play are among the many research issues investigated in the Humanoid League.

RoboCup Activities

Along with robotics competitions, RoboCup hosts a number of demonstrations. Microsoft created a robot soccer simulation to demonstrate how Microsoft Robotics Studio can be applied to challenging environments like RoboCup soccer. The students also had a chance to control 4-legged robots (Sony AIBOs) using a Wiimote in a demonstration by researchers from Robotics, Learning, and Autonomy at Brown (rLab) University.

RoboCupJunior Regional