We spent the last few weeks planning the time until RoboCup 2011. In order to realize all our ideas, we need students of local universities (Berlin, Potsdam) who want to write their bachelor or master thesis in our team.
Additionally, we would appreciate it if you could tell your fellow students about our open positions, or put up a poster in your local faculties.
P.S.: We are also looking for a student supporting us in our search of sponsors and public relations work. This could possibly be part of a bachelor/master thesis or a project/internship. Again we ask that if you know anybody who could be interested you let them know about this opportunity.
2010 is Birthday of Science in Berlin. Our robots participated in some of the associated events, e.g. the Wissenschaftstage Süd-West in Steglitz as well as the long night of science two months ago.
Together with these and many further events a travelling exhibion shows 12 steles presenting great Berlin scientists, their achievements as well as links to today’s world. One of the scientists presented is Konrad Zuse. Also shown are his computers Z1 and Z3 – as well the FUmanoids.
The exhibition can be seen on Potsdamer Platz until October. The same exhibition also travels through Berlin and Potsdam and displays at various public places (see German text for dates).
2009 has been an extraordinary year for us. Nobody expected us to win the 2nd place in Graz and we knew that it’s going to be a tough task to repeat this success in 2010.
Now it’s the end of the RoboCup Season 2010 and once again: We’ve made it! Additionally we’ve won the Technical Challenge this year, which is absolutely great.
Thanks to everyone who supported us during this season. Especially our sponsors:
After 1:2 in the first half, the Darmstadt Dribblers upped their pace in the second half and finished the game with 1:7. So we are 2nd (again, after losing 1:11 last year). This was also the second time we used our brand new goalie:
The whole game can be seen (from the live stream) at http://www.justin.tv/darmstadt_dribblers/b/265745396 and the Darmstadt Dribblers will probably upload high-quality videos to YouTube very soon (which we will link to and also add some more pictures later).
We won the semi-final against CIT Brains Kid from Japan with a score of 5:2 (we shot 4 goals) and are now making last checks before the final game against Darmstadt Dribblers. We will add photos and more links soon, for now here’s a team photo (including one CIT robot) taken after the semi-final.
In an exciting match against KMUTT from Thailand we won the quarter final 4:1. This means we will play in the semi-final tomorrow – and experiencing a heavy déjà vu as we will meet, just as in last year, the Japanese team CIT Brains. The other half final will be played between the Darmstadt Dribblers and VT Darwin (USA).
No official announcements yet, but from what we’ve been told by officials we are this year’s winner of the Technical Challenge in the Kid-Size league. Though we only succeeded in one challenge (throw-in, our pet-challenge as we barely missed a success in it last year) and tried a quick attempt in another, this was (luckily) enough to make the first place. Here’s a video showing some runs of the Throw-In-Challenge:
Today was the first of three games in Round Robin 2, where 4 groups of 4 teams play against each other and the best two proceed in the quarter finals. The game ended with a 3:0 victory. Two goals shot by TKU did not count due to rule violations and our robots missed (by just a little bit) on two further occasions.
FUmanoids vs TKU
Bob vs TKU
Seconds before the final goal
Generally we are still improving our software, in this game the robots now played properly in a team which worked very well. However they had some trouble approaching the ball precisely, something that is currently being worked on and which should be fixed soon. We are also fine-tuning our strategies and other improvements – and also there is a secret weapon under development that we hope to deploy in the final games.
Next two games in Round Robin 2 are against Team Persia tomorrow at 9:45 SGT (3:45 CEST, 1:45 UTC) and Chibi Dragons at 1:15pm SGT (7:15 CEST, 5.15 UTC).Wish us luck.
We spent the last few weeks planning the time until RoboCup 2011. In order to realize all our ideas, we need students of local universities (Berlin, Potsdam) who want to write their bachelor or master thesis in our team.
