Soccer for Humanoid Robots

The Darmstadt Dribblers, a team of autonomous soccer playing robots developed by a research group of the Univeristy of Darmstadt, videos and some info.

clipped from robocup.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Darmstadt Dribblers clipped from www.youtube.com RoboCup 2008 Humanoid League: Cooperation and Teamplay by DD This video shows teamplay/cooperation and obstacle avoidance by the autonomous humanoid robots of the Darmstadt Dribblers team. The robots negotiate their roles via wifi, with the robot closest to the ball selecting the striker role and the other one staying back as supporter. Striker Isra then kicks the ball past the opponent and finally scores. After scoring the goal our robots can be seen cheering. Visit http://www.dribblers.de/ for further information, pictures and videos. clipped from www.youtube.com Humanoid robots show emotional reactions at RoboCup 2006 clipped from robocup.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Current Research Topics High performance locomotion Bionic robots and new actuators Software and control architectures tailored for heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots Lightweight robots described by low payload capabilities Robot localization Programming of robot and team behavior using discrete, hierarchical state automata GameController / Referee Box for RoboCup Humanoid League

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