A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of soccer.
The main organised competitions are RoboCup or FIRA tournaments played each year.
The RoboCup contest currently has a number of soccer leagues:
- Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
- Small Size League
- Middle Size League
- Simulation League
- Humanoid League
Additionally, there is a RoboCupJunior league for younger students.
qfix Soccer robot edit
The qfix soccer robot "Terminator" is an omnidrive robot that can be used for RoboCup Junior. It includes a kicker and a dribbler as well as a controller board with Atmel controller.
The robot can be programmed using the GNU GCC compiler.
Graupner RC-SOCCERBOT edit
The Graupner "RC-SOCCERBOT" is a mobile robot platform developed by qfix which can be used as a radio-controller toy playing soccer with ping-pong balls. Gaining more experience in robotics the user can also implement C++ programs on the robot.[2]
References edit
- ^ Ficht, Grzegorz; Farazi, Hafez; Brandenburger, Andre; Rodriguez, Diego; Pavlichenko, Dmytro; Allgeuer, Philipp; Hosseini, Mojtaba; Behnke, Sven (November 2018). "NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-Sized Open-Source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot". 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Beijing, China: IEEE. pp. 1–9. arXiv:1810.08395. Bibcode:2018arXiv181008395F. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038. ISBN 978-1-5386-7283-9. S2CID 53044123.
- ^ "RC-SOCCERBOT" (PDF). elektronik.nmp24.de.
External links edit
- Official Website For RoboCup Junior
- qFix Archived 2020-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Graupner Robotics
- Supplier of FIRA Robot Football/Robot Soccer solutions
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