The Fumanoids have asked us to record their game. Both teams are quite good, so it might be interesting for you too:
Quarterfinal Fumanoids vs. CIT Brains
Author: Timon
Netherlands: Day 7
Again a eventful day reached its end.
Due to exhaustion (many long days for us) we must present you the daily report a little delayed.
RoboCup is more than just soccer playing robots. For example there is the robocup@home, where it is all about domestic service robots who have to fetch various objects and follow certain humans. We did look around there as well today.
Between 9 am and pm there are a lot of visitors in the hall, interested watching the games and preperations.
But how will the teams stay motivated in the 2 hours the visitors have to leave the hall, while the teams are still working?
The simple solution: Cheering robotic fans on a tribune, built by the human visitors themselves during the daytime.
Round Robin 2 Game #3
Our last round robin game will start soon:
Round Robin 2 Game #2
We are playing against the “CIT Brains Kid”, a clear favourite for winning this world cup.
A victory seems unlikely, but we will try to hold our goal as good as we can. 🙂
Sheduled start is 12:30
Game is delayed
Our game will start approximately 30 minutes late.
The Queen of the Netherlands is expected.
Second round robin game #1 was a draw
Our first game during the second round robin against the team “I-Kid”ended as a draw, despite good performances from both teams.
The robots we got from the Bold Hearts did run really well, although the opponent team could prevent us from scoring a goal.
We did use our potential and are eager for the upcoming games tomorrow.
Looser of the day
And the looser of the day is: My noodle-soup!
The poor thing had to stand in the cold for the whole day.
Each time I was about to consume it some important task, game, or… well – pizza hindered me on doing so.
Well, towards the evening I finally managed to lead the soup to her intended purpose, but my remorse will stay. RoboCup is a cruel sport.
Round Robin 2 Game #1
Live streaming starts soon:
Peperations for the first game of the second round robin
We are currently working heavy on the preparations for our next game.
Our Chargers are set to “fast-charge” and we will have a little surprise next game:
The Bold Hearts unfortunately did not make it to the next round, but two of their players will play for our team.
First tests with their hardware looked good. The Bold Hearts have quite new Darwins which therefore have more precise and reliable motors.
Apart from that a look on the other game fields shows us that we are from now on meeting teams who are really good at robotic soccer. We don’t see a high chance to survive the next round, but we are bound to give the People a good show and use all of our potential.
PS: We apologise for our low image density right now, but we are quite busy and have little time to prepare image material.
Intermediate Round Won
After a long game, which draw the energy of our robots as well as of our humans, we are now officially the winner of the intermediate round.
To our disappointment there where no goals. Although our opponents had massive problems with their robots and where not even present on the field for extended periods we did not manage to score a regular goal (even though our robots did try).
So it came to the penalty shootout.
We did not manage to score there as well, because we shot the ball to far (so we where not allowed to shoot a second time) and to short (so the ball did not reach the goal line).
As the first 5 attempts did not result in any goal the referee ordred the execution of another 5 tries.
The Opponent managed to improve their fieldie so that he was able to make a few shooting attempts – but only one shot deserved that name. Their 10th attempt came close to our goal – and our goalie Glados did throw himself in the correct direction.
The last resort for finding a winner had to be chosen: A race.
The Robot to reach the ball in a shorter time period is the winner.
Both teams managed to update their software to the new challenge within just a minute,
and in the end it was a question of the better hardware.
Our Robots are bigger and have stronger motors, so Tamara did reach the ball in 7 seconds. The enemy did not reach the ball and fell backwards shortly before touching it. Surprisingly Tamara did not fall (though touching the ball while falling would have counted as “reached”).
We are quite happy about entering the second round robin, but the way we reached this games decision was not to our satisfaction.
Our victory was not unearned though, because we where much more present on the field and had a higher ability to play. Also we did shoot 2 goals in the first round robin – whilst our opponent did not manage to score at all.
As our next game will be at 16:45 we are now a little stressed to make a good impression there.
But we’d like to state that it was a good decision to buy new batteries and chargers in advance to this competition, because we are now able to endure long and several games in short succession. We where even able to lend Batteries to the Israeli Team for their penalty shoot-out which had a similarly bad battery situation like we had last year.