A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of football.
The main organised competitions are the annual RoboCup and FIRA (Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association) tournaments.
Leagues
The RoboCup contest currently has a number of football leagues:
- Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
- 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 for RoboCup Junior. 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” 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.[2]
References
- ^ Ficht, Grzegorz; Farazi, Hafez; Brandenburger, Andre; Rodriguez, Diego; Pavlichenko, Dmytro; Allgeuer, Philipp; Hosseini, Mojtaba; Behnke, Sven (November 2018). “NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-Sized Open-Source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot”. 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Beijing, China: IEEE. pp. 1–9. arXiv:1810.08395. Bibcode:2018arXiv181008395F. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038. ISBN 978-1-5386-7283-9. S2CID 53044123.
- ^ “RC-SOCCERBOT” (PDF). elektronik.nmp24.de.
External links
- Official Website For RoboCup Junior
- qFix Archived 2020-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Graupner Robotics
- Supplier of FIRA Robot Football/Robot Soccer solutions