NaoTeam HTWK vs. SPITeam -- 3:0

Our fight about the half-final is over. We are in :D our next opponent will be RoboEireann tomorrow at 10am.

NaoTeam HTWK vs DAInamite -- 3:0

We won our second game 3:0 :D Our next game will be around 3pm. Video follows.

First game NaoTeam HTWK vs. Humboldt -- 3:2

Our first game is over and it was intense. We shot four goals but only three of them in the correct goal. At the end we won 3:2. Thanks guys for that great game! :D

You can follow the results at: http://www.tzi.de/spl/bin/view/Website/GermanOpenResults2012 .

Internet, referee meeting and the first test game

Every year, the Internet connection has its difficulties - almost too obvious. Therefore, most of the day the network was broken. However, we still made good use of the day: we fixed a few outstanding bugs, exchanged news and discussed results with other teams.

The referee meeting took one and a half hour and was about explaining new rules to all teams. This year, both goals are yellow instead one blue and one yellow goal, which dramatically increases the game difficulty for each team. Our Naos need to keep track by them selves what their own part of the field is.

This evening, we also had our first test game against our friends from Berlin. We scored four goals and won 4:0.

Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Sleeping beauties

Yesterday, after we left the exhibition, the biggest adventure still awaited us. How will we sleep in a small room?Thomas had some suggestions:

After we made some adjustments we found a quite comfortable position:

  

First casualties

Aldebaran will arrive tomorrow and until then we mark our defect parts on our robos. With this robot the lower camera is broken.

Arriving in Magdeburg

Hello fellows,

we arrived in Magdeburg and already done the first 3h shopping tour. We are now preparing our Naos for the first tests.

German Open 2012

Hi. We just wanted to keep you updated about our championships this year. The German Open is approaching fast and we are working on all of our planned improvements right now. Of couse we also need to adapt to the changes in this years rules like two goals with equal colours.

Our accomplishments so far include a hurt neck on one of our robots, a lot of working late in our robolab and an epic commit with over 3500 changed source code files.


Of course we are looking forward to see a lot of you in Magdebug again so feel free to visit us during the championship.

Nao-Team HTWK : NTU Robot PAL - 2 : 4!

Deja vu! We've lost against NTU, again, and again with 2 : 4! This results in an overall 4th place for us (out of 27 teams)! With this result we've achieved a new high-score for our team! This years world championship was so great and we are so happy about our achievements! Also, kudos to our other team members, who couldn't be here, namley Manuel, Samuel, Martin, Hannah, Sandra, Christoph and Katja, and of course huge thanks to our advising professors, Prof. Klaus Bastian and Prof. Karl-Udo Jahn, the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences for financial support as well as this years sponsors: malberg EDV-Systemberatung, EUREGEX and focus GmbH! Now it's time for us to become "social" again, to celebrate with the others and last but not least to get some sleep! :-)

Update: Videos of the games are published successively within the blog posts that contains game results.

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Teams of the Standard Platform League, 2011

Nao-Team HTWK : B-Human - 0 : 5!

It was a great game though we've lost 0 : 5 against the former world champion! According to B-Human we've been their "hardest" opponent until now. This is very nice to hear and we've tried our best to keep them struggling! The second game in the semifinal is NTU Robot PAL (with a B-Human code base) against Nao Devils, which will start in about 15 min. We are very curious about our opponent in the final game at noon for the 3rd place.

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Impressions from today ...

The open challenge is over by now and we are done touching the source code of our robots. :-) After these last intense moments, we will grab some beers with our last opponents and the rest of the RoboCup teams. Good night fellas. :-)

Some more pictures from today:

Nao-Team HTWK : rUNSWift - 5 : 2! YES, YES, YES!!!

Guys, we've won against the former vice world champion, rUNSWift, with 5 : 2! So awesome! We are all so thrilled! The video will be online soon! With this win, we've reached the semifinals! The game is tomorrow 9 am against B-Human. By the way ... three German teams have reached the semifinals!

Thomas, you owe us a bottle of whiskey! :-)


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Nao-Team HTWK : WPI - 7 : 0!

Quarterfinal!!! We've won against WPI and are first in the Second Round Robin Round! With this, we've reached the quarterfinal of this world championship and belong to the top 8 teams (out of 27)! We are so happy about this! Amazing! The next game, this time within quarterfinal, will be against team rUNSWift from Australia! Tough challenge! Stay tuned!


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Nao-Team HTWK : CMurfs - 5 : 1!

Yeaaaahh!!! We've won against CMurfs (Carnegie Mellon University) with 5 : 1! Awesome! :-)

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Nao-Team HTWK : WrightEagleUnleashed - 3 : 0!

Good news everyone, we've won against WrightEagleUnleashed with 3 : 0! Videos will be published soon. By the way, some videos of the last games can already be found within the related blog posts. Out next game will be at 11:40 am against CMurfs!


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Impressions of day 3

Day 3 is nearly over. We've won two out of two matches and reached the second intermediate round which will be challenged by tomorrow, so tomorrow will be the decision whether we will reach the quarterfinal or not. You may wish us success and a quantum of luck! :-) Our first game starts on 10 am against WrightEagleUnleashed. Stay tuned!

Nao-Team HTWK : L3M - 4 : 0!

We've won against L3M with 4 : 0! With the winning of this match, we got into the next round, namely 'Second Round Robin Pool' together with CMurfs, WPI and WrightEagleUnleashed. Our next game will be tomorrow 10 am against WrightEagleUnleashed!

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RoboCup Live Stream

A live stream from the RoboCup is also available here:

We're in TV ;-)

The RoboCup 2011 made it into the Turkish TV news. In the first two videos, you can see us or our robots (the ones with their arms behind their backs) in the background:

http://tv.interpress.com/video/9670599.mpg
http://tv.interpress.com/video/9670026.mpg
http://tv.interpress.com/video/9668878.mpg
http://tv.interpress.com/video/9668793.mpg