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Video about the Humanoid League at RoboCup

dseifert — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:18:10 +0000

A short video about the Humanoid League, it’s achievements and goals. Mostly you will see DARwIn and the Darmstadt Dribblers, but do keep an eye out for a few cameo appearances of Anna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibH-sZ7458

via @dribblers

A peek inside

dseifert — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:53:24 +0000

We are still extremely busy assembling our full team of new robots. Progress is good but time is running short, as RoboCup German Open starts in but 12 days …

But the electronic part of the robot is now finalized, here you see the inside of our new robot Konrad. On the left the “brain”, an IGEPv2 board kindly sponsored by the manufacturer (ISEE) running at 1 GHZ. This will be mounted facing front. On the backside (right part of the image) you can see the power supply and the motor control board. On the top the IMU. And last, but not least, the on and off buttons.

Robot operation table

dseifert — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:25:50 +0000

RoBOW’12.1

dseifert — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:11:13 +0000

This weekend RoBOW’12.1 took place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This time a record number of 9 teams (6 SPL, 3 KidSize teams) participated, including new teams Bit-Bots from Uni Hamburg and DAInamite from TU Berlin.

It was a fantastic event, meeting so many RoboCup teams, hearing great talks and being able to share ideas and discuss solutions. A big thank you to Nao Team Humboldt for hosting this event.

Our new robot also took the stage, unfortunately we are not sure what he wanted to tell us:

Qualification Video 2012

dseifert — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:18:03 +0000

As every year, teams have to qualify for participation in the RoboCup competitions. For the humanoid league, this means a video and a team description paper by January 19th. The latter will be available soon, but the video is already done and here for you to enjoy.

The video shows a couple of things for the first time, like our new robot doing a throw-in and walking. You may also have noticed its new feet, which are a first step towards a full-body enclosure. There is still much left to do for the upcoming competitions (next one will be the German Open in two months) but we are on a good track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD29Q7L_lIE

Well-Dressed

dseifert — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:26:11 +0000

Our new robot is making good progress. Here you see him dressed for a quick match.

Source code 2011

dseifert — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:26:45 +0000

In the Standard Platform League it is a long-standing tradition that (some) teams release their source code to facilitate the advancement of the league. We feel that this is would be a very good idea for the Humanoid League as well. While obviously each team’s source code has strong dependencies on the particular hardware used (e.g. processor, operating system, motor communication, camera lenses and interface, etc), it would still provide valuable insight and allow other teams to learn from successes and mistakes being made.

In the spirit of knowledge exchange, we have decided to make available the source code used in RoboCup 2011 in Istanbul. We hope this will encourage other teams to release their source code as well!

Standing Up (2)

dseifert — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:38:30 +0000

Though this year’s stand up motion from the back was very – for loss of a better word – cool it was not very efficient. It took too much time and it moved the robot too far away from the position where it fell down. So one of the big goals for 2012 was to rectify this problem. So far it seems we have succeeded. The video shows the first attempt at standing up from the back, and we expect to be able to make this a bit faster later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdgqn3XDUY

Standing Up (1)

dseifert — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:11:36 +0000

One issue we had with this year’s robot was an efficient stand-up motion. With the new robot model it’s much easier. In the video we show you the first attempt to stand up from the front. We hope to increase the speed a bit more once the robot design is fully finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1MHJB4RKE

You can see that we have made several modifications in this robot compared to the picture you saw before. Main difference is a torso pitch servo that significantly improves the ability to stand up (which is a big issue with robots using parallel mechanics in their legs).

Here we go again

dseifert — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:39:21 +0000

With 7 1/2 months to go until RoboCup, we are close to finish our new hardware setup. Here’s a picture from a month ago, showing the three generations of robots – in cyan our 2009/2010 model, in magenta this year’s model and a bit naked and not quite finished our new design. We are re-using the same equipment, however the construction is using much lighter.

The prototype shown here was the first attempt, it still had some minor problems and missing components, which we fixed in the last weeks. Stay tuned.