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A soccer robot is a specialized
Official Website For RoboCup Junior
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Graupner Robotics
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A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot
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and mobile robot
A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of locomotion.Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Lanzon, A.,Group Coordinated Control of Networked Mobile Robots with Applications to Object Transportation IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 202 ...
that is used to play variants of football.
The main organised competitions are 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 ...
or FIRA
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tournaments played each year.
The RoboCup contest currently has a number of football leagues:
* Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
** Small Size League
** Middle Size League
** Simulation League
*** 2D Soccer Simulation
*** 3D Soccer Simulation
* Humanoid League
Additionally, there is a RoboCupJunior league for younger students.
qfix Soccer robot
The qfix football robot "Terminator" is an omnidrive robot that can be used forRoboCup Junior RoboCup Junior (RCJ), sometimes stylised RobocupJunior, is a division of RoboCup, a not-for-profit robotics organisation. It focuses on education and aims to introduce the larger goals of the RoboCup project (creating robots) to primary and seconda ...
. 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
The Graupner "RC-SOCCERBOT
A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of football.
The main organised competitions are RoboCup or FIRA
Firá (, pronounced , official name Φηρά Θήρας - ''Firá Thíras'') is ...
" 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.
References
External links
Official Website For RoboCup Junior
qFix
Graupner Robotics
Educational toys * {{Toy-stub