Today was the start of the tournament. The Bold Hearts played the opening match against the ZJU Dancers at 9 am. Afterwards we competed against the FUmanoids in a match that ended in a 0:0 tie. Unfortunately Minibot experienced some issues with the ball detection algorithm. Later on we were able to resolve the problem, but as usual other issues emerged afterwards. Although the Wolves have quite a good ball detection our team was not able to score a goal. 

Until 12 pm we had time to fix minor issues and continued on adapting the Wolves’ ball detection for our robot. 

In our second match the ZJU Dancers beat us with a score of 0:1. We believe  their success to be mostly attributed to their localisation software.

After a pleasant lunch break we were able to get the Wolves’ vision software running on Minibot. Since we use a different camera we had to adjust some parameters, so we could finally detect the ball. Still Minibot did not move much during the match since there seems to be a problem with the command to start the walking towards the ball when one is detected. We will approach that issue tomorrow.

In the penalty shoot-out against the Bold Hearts in our last match, which started at 6 pm, Hans, the Wolves’ robot, managed to score a goal and Minibot did a good job as goalie.

We also visited the other three exhibition halls in which the junior league is located. One of them accommodates student projects from various schools. We were quite impressed by the complexity of these projects. The subject of most projects was related to electronics, programming and environmental concerns.