Transcript RoboCup Junior powerpoint- Gail C - Coweb

RoboCup Junior
Gail Chapman
Luella High School
RoboCup Junior
• RoboCup Junior is a project-oriented
educational initiative that sponsors local,
regional and international robotic events
for young students up through age 19.
PURPOSE
• Purpose is to foster Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and robotics research by providing a
standard problem where a wide range of
technologies can be integrated and
examined.
RoboCup
• The ultimate goal of RoboCup is that by
the middle of the 21st century, a team of
fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer
players shall play (and win!) a soccer
game against the (human) world
champions.
RoboCup Challenges
• RoboCupJunior offers several challenges,
each emphasizing cooperative, problemsolving and task-achievement aspects.
soccer
rescue
dance
Soccer Challenge
• 2-on-2 teams of
autonomous mobile
robots play games in a
highly dynamic
environment, tracking a
special light-emitting
ball in an enclosed field
landmarked in shades
of gray.
RoboCup Junior Soccer Rules
for 2007
RCJ soccer field
building plans
Rescue Challenge
Robots identify victims within re-created
disaster scenarios, varying in complexity
from line-following on a flat surface to
negotiating paths through obstacles on
uneven terrain.
RoboCup 2007
Rescue Rules
Rescue Field
Building Plans
Make "victims" out of green tape, aluminized
tape or aluminum foil and place them across
the black line
Dance Challenge
• The robot dance challenge encourages
creativity, bringing one or more robots
together with music, dressed in costume
and moving in harmony.
dance rules (2007)
HISTORY
RoboCupJunior began in 1998, with a demonstration at
RoboCup-98 in Paris. The following year, RoboCup-99 in
Stockholm exhibited the first interactive RoboCupJunior workshops.
At RCJ-2000 in Melbourne, over 100 children participated from 25 schools around
Australia, as well as from Germany and the USA.
RCJ-2001 was held in Seattle, USA, where 25 teams from four countries.
RCJ-2002 was held in Fukuoka, Japan, where 59 teams from 12 countries participated.
RCJ-2003 was held in Padova, Italy in July 2003, where 57 teams from 15 countries
participated.
RCJ-2004 was held in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2004, where 162 teams from 18 countries
participated.
RCJ-2005 was held in Osaka, Japan in July 2005, where 163 teams from 18 countries
participated.
RCJ-2006 was held in Bremen, Germany, in June 2006, where 240 teams from 22
countries participated.
2007 RoboCup Junior
• RCJ-2007 was held on July 1 through 6,
2007 in Atlanta, USA, on the campus of
the Georgia Institute of Technology
321 teams from 39 countries/regions
participated in RoboCup 2007 Atlanta
Georgia Tech Website for RoboCup 2007 /
http://www.robocup-us.org/
http://www.gatech.edu/gallery/v/robocup/
(photo gallery)
RoboCup 2007
• Highlight Movie
2005 Osaka (10min