Today was another exciting day at the venue. At 2pm we had our first match of the day against Robit from South Korea. We put further effort in the ball detection to resolve the last problems with the porting of vision.
Right at the beginning of the match Minibot got a engine damage. The gear in the shoulder was broken and the patient had to be treated. But luckily we are always well equipped at the competitions. So we had spare motors to change the broken parts. Before the end of the match Minibot was ready again to at least defend the goal. In the mean time Hans, the WF Wolves’ robot, was defending the goal and was able to kick the ball into the right direction. But Hans fared no better. After falling down he broke his neck which had to be fixed with hot glue several times in this match. Robit had a big chance to score a goal, but they shot the ball that far, 10 cm in front of our goal to be precise, that they weren’t able to see the ball anymore. Due to the hardly fixed head hans wasn’t able anymore to locate the ball correctly. So he kicked into the air several times and did not hit the ball anymore. But unfortunately it was not enough to score a goal so the match ended without goals.
In the second and last game for the day at 6 pm we played against the Fumanoids. In the afternoon we could make some little improvements so that we were able to walk a little into the direction of the ball, that we actually recognised. But after some steps Minibot fell over and due to a fault (probably in the accelerometer) he turned over and over on the field. He acted like a real soccer player! As a lesson from last game we had already prepared the hot glue for the game. But it got worse: Right before the start of the game Nils had noticed sparks flying out of the Wolves’ robot. A cable had become loose and caused a short circuit. A soldering iron was needed and after a short surgery Hans was able to play again. Only his head kept falling off when he fell down.
Towards the of the competition we wanted to take a team picture. We quickly found someone to take the photo of us. While we were still standing there, some participants and visitors of the IranOpen joined us to see our robot. Of course, we took also photos with them and soon we were surrounded by a group of people with Hans, Minibot and us in the middle.
