Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

ian teams have been active participants of

RoboCup RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, Itsuki Noda and Minoru Asada). The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI ...

events since 1998. The number of Iranian teams has been largely increasing over the past years. Thereby, the need to have a regional event seemed rather necessary. Furthermore, since the overall number world interested teams in RoboCup has increased; regional events may and can be a proper field for RoboCup leagues Technical Committees to see teams qualities for RoboCup World Competitions. IranOpen is a place for teams willing to take part in RoboCup World Competitions in order to show their qualities and standards. It is also a place for fresh teams to gain experience and become ready to join the world teams.

RoboCup

RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI,

robotics Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots. Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...

, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

games as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous

humanoid A humanoid (; from English ''human'' and '' -oid'' "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics. By the 20th century, the term came to describe fossils which were morphologically similar, but not identical, to those of ...

robot A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions Automation, automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, co ...

s that can win against the human world champion team in soccer. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a

software platform A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a computing platform may be obfuscated under layers of abstraction, the ''summation of the requi ...

for research on the

software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

aspects of RoboCup. One of the major applications of RoboCup technologies is a

search and rescue Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search ...

in large scale disaster. RoboCup initiated RoboCupRescue project to specifically promote research in socially significant issues.

IranOpen 2006

Azad University of Qazvin as the pioneer in organizing a RoboCup event in Iran prepared a strong proposal for the RoboCup Federation which was then approved by the Federation to organize RoboCup IranOpen2006. RoboCup IranOpen2006 took place at Tehran International Fair from April 7 to April 9. It was the first but successful experience of organizing a RoboCup event in Iran. About 100 teams competed in 7 leagues and over 3000 visitors enjoined watching the games.

IranOpen 2007

Azad University The Islamic Azad University (IAU; , ''Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi'') is a private university system headquartered in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of universities in the world. History Headquartered in Tehran, I ...

Qazvin Qazvin (; ; ) is a city in the Central District (Qazvin County), Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin province, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the largest city in the provi ...

having the successful experience of organizing RoboCup IranOpen2006 decided to organize RoboCup IranOpen2007 in a more broad range. The proposal of the Azad University was approved by Iranian RoboCup National Committee and sent to the RoboCup Federation for final approval. It was then finally approved by the Federation. Therefore, RoboCup IranOpen2007 took place in Tehran International Fair from 5–7 April 2007. About 260 teams competed in 15 leagues and over 5000 visitors enjoyed watching the games.

IranOpen 2008

Azad University of Qazvin for the third consequent year was approved by Iranian RoboCup National Committee to organize RoboCup IranOpen2008. This has also been approved by the RoboCup Federation. This year for the first time the event will take place in Azad University of Qazvin main campus from 3–5 April 2008. RoboCup IranOpen2008 welcomes all interested teams to join the event and compete in 16 leagues.

IranOpen 2009

RoboCup IranOpen 2009 being the fourth annual RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held on April 4–6, 2009. Iranian RoboCup National Committee and Azad University of Qazvin as organizers of this event wish all the participants luck and success. We will try to make the 2009 competitions even more enthusiastic and put all the efforts in our power to make the competitions environment as much comfortable as possible for the participants.

IranOpen 2010

IranOpen 2011

RoboCup IranOpen 2011 was held at Tehran International Fair from 5 - 9 April 2011. RoboCup IranOpen 2011 hosted about 350 teams from 14 countries within 22 leagues.

IranOpen 2012

RoboCup IranOpen 2012 was held at Tehran International Fair from 3 - 7 April, 2012. RoboCup IranOpen 2012 hosted 330 teams from 13 countries competing in 24 leagues. Arian team which is led by Arash Poori participated in the competition.

External links

IRANOpen official site

Iranian RoboCup National Committee
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