Overall a good day. Our hardware is fully functional and we won our first round robin match. Though we did not implement new world changing modifications on our robots today, we got the software to a stable status so that fails are barely happening. If you want to view our match, you can find the recording of the live stream in our
Youtube-Chanel.
Now we are looking forward to our game against the Bold Hearts tomorrow morning, which has been rescheduled forwards to 9:30.
In the afternoon we went with Tamara to the “Robot playground” – which for some unknown reason seems to have been built for human children. However, Tamara still had some fun on the snuggle lawn petting some robot dinosaurs.
Suspense and some laughs were gotten this evening through the Berliners with their new “Humanoid Plattform” and the suggestion to establish a new league.
The special thing: The hardware in this league is – due to a lack of perfect humanlike robots – substituted through real humans. Each player gets belt on a computer with image recognition and behaviour modul including a webcam on the head. The autonomous working software gives the human then instructions like “turn left”, “shoot”, “go forward”. This means a test of robot behaviour in realistic circumstances without the need for working and existing hardware (you only need to put the equipment on arbitrary people from the side of the playing fields).
3 members of our team spontaneously volunteered as hardware and were instructed by the software to move on the playing field.
Of the people playing, no one was able to do a noteworthy action, besides some funny collisions and pirouettes. Later there was a robot of the teen-sized league put on the field which dribbled the ball competently through the human players and scored a goal.
The inital costs for 11 human players are only 5000€. This would establish an interesting hybrid between the simulation league and real robotics. With advantages of both worlds (and disadvantages from a third), that gives the spectators a high entertainment value (that unfortunately you do not have so much in our league).
So if it would happen by chance that someone sponsors us this equipment, it would be well worth a thought to port our software to the human.
