Yesterday evening we finally managed to run our software on the robot. So today we could start testing. The bus shuttle to the hall was in time, because we had to attend the opening ceremony at 9:00. Speakers at the ceremony were the president of the Qazvin University, important professors and the deputy mayor of Tehran. They underlined the importance of the RoboCup competitions and the research in Iran. 

Today we recorded test data for Fabians master thesis on pressure sensors .  The artificial turf on the playing field is not very high, but it is made of different kinds of artificial turf which makes the robots stumble at the borders between two parts.

The field markings correspond to the rules of 2015 and the games will be played under the rules of 2016.  At this competition there was no referee meeting, because the technical committee will be refereeing most games . Also there was no robot inspection to officially measure and weight the robots. Instead each team simply had to measure their robots themselves and fill out a form.

Tomorrow at 7:30 German time we will play our first game against the FUmanoids from Berlin. Unfortunately we could not do a test game today so we are very excited on how we will present ourselves on the playing field. At the moment we are working on including the Wolves image processing into our software, as our own image processing code is too slow to be used in the game. This was enabled by Marcs master thesis, to move our software to the ROS framework in cooperation with other teams. Thus, standards were defined  that make code sharing very easy. We are looking forward to the debut tomorrow. 

At 9:30 German time we will compete in our second group match against the ZJU Dancers. Our third one will be at 15:30 against the Bold Hearts.