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We have been working hard for the last 3 hours and are preparing for our next 2 matches, which are still upcoming for us.
For one there ist at 12:00 the game against the “CIT Brains Kid” and at 15:00 a game against “Hanuman KMUTT”.
The CIT Brains are one of the favorites, so it will definitely be an interesting match.
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.
What a day.
We succeeded to advance to the second round robin and also had our first match of this second round.
The draw can be seen as quite satisfying because of the skills of the opposing team, and we had our chances to score too.
Temporarily it was very stressful for us, as our match in the intermediate round went into overtime and penalty shootout, with the following first match of the second round robin starting shortly after this. If we would have had big hardware problems, we would possibly have had a breakdown, but we did not 😉
On the contrary. Due to the kind lending from the Bold Hearts our hardware worked better than ever and we were finally able to idenfy which of our stability problems were because of the Hardware and which were because of the Software. Indeed it is mostly the hardware, only our stand-up animation from lying on the back seems to need big improvements.
Propably we will have a reversed friendly match against the Bold Hearts before the end of the World Cup. Their software on our robots against our software on their robots. If we loose, we can never again complain to them about our worn out hardware, if we win we have all the rights to do it 🙂
Here now as usual the collected pictures of the day:
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.
Now it has been set that in the Intermediate Round we are competing against Cyberlords La Salle at 1.45 pm.
Soon our Game against the Bold Hearts will begin.
There will be a live-stream:
By the time almost all members of our team have a sore throat, thus first some fennel-tea with honey for the start of the day.
At a traffic light on our way here we where spontaneously blessed by a passing stranger.
It might be the catholic scout bus we are driving around here.
But maybe it is a good sign for our upcoming game.
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.
YAY! We did it!
Our first regular goal, our first worldcup-goal and our first regular victory in a game.
During the first half we where a little out of luck, the opponents succeeded in scoring a goal against us – our counterstrike was near, but we only got close. The second half was way better. Tamara started from the kick off, and brought the ball with a few “aimed” kicks to the enemy goal. Exactly as planned, which is a rather seldom situation to observe at the RoboCup.
Shortly after this, the enemy fieldie took the initiative again. He saw the ball, positioned himself not to miss the goal post, and kicked – directly into his own goal.
That is how our Game ended – with a 2:1 score for our team – and we have all reason to be happy.
To be honest, the referee decisions where to our advantage. Especially the repositioning of the ball was sometimes quite beneficial for our chances to score.
What makes us especially proud: The game ended without any notable hardware faults. No camera “lost” at all. The difficult soldering work in advance was worth the effort.
Tomorrow at 10:00 9:30 am we are going to play against our neighbours on the next seat, the Bold Hearts from Great Britain.
Maybe we should be careful from now on with the coffee they are offering 🙂
Since long we are plagued with problems at the JST-Connectors of our cameras. As we did not manage to construct high-quality spare cables for them we now started to solder them directly to the board.
No plug, no problem.
