Final: HTWK vs. BHuman -- 2:6

We've done it. We were in the final!!! It was exhausting to scream at our robots what they should do ;) After the first half the result was 2:1 for BHuman, in the second half we scored our second goal and the game ended 6:2.

So this is the first time in team history we are the second in the world!!!! :D

The team this year (from left back to front):  Thomas Reinhardt, Philipp Freick, Samuel Eckermann, Tobias Kalbitz, Hannes Hinerasky, Jörg Schließer,  Hannah Müller, Rico Tilgner. Not here: Stefan Seering, Michael Wünsch, Lucas Stadler, Jonas Mende.

We'd like to thank our Alma Mater the HTWK and our faculty for all the support and believing in us!. Also we like to thank all the sponsors who made it possible that we all can be here. Also a huge THANK YOU to all the volunteers who looked out for us and helped us to accommodate. Especially we like to thank Duncan ten Velthuid and Katie Genter who spent so much effort in the preparations and made the RoboCup 2013 SPL championship work flawlessly.

You are free to use the photos for articles, blogs, etc.

FINALE!!!

We scored 5:1 in a very exciting game against rUNSWift and are in the FINALE!!!!

Implementing the team strategy for a 5th player over night helped a lot and that gamble really paid off! :-) Oh, and we fixed two segfaults (bugs that made our software crash) 10 minutes before the game. ;-)

The finale will be at 12:00.

From quarter finals to semi finals!

We passed the quarter finals by winning 8:0 vs. team DAInamite. At 9 am (in half an our) our semifinal starts. We play against rUNSWift from New South Wales, Australia, which we last met in the quarter finals at RoboCup 2011 in Istanbul.

Last night we changed a large part of our strategy, and now everyone is nervous whether it'l work. We're doing last tests.

LIVE-STREAM

Hey all, we'll have the live-Stream from RoboCup on our game at 7pm! It's quarterfinals, so don't miss!

robocuptv.org

It's getting crowded

It's getting damn crowded here. Many people on the tribunes around us, an announcer talking loudly about a game, photographers and TV everywhere, people shouting, robots talking, whistles.... And still some of us manage to do some serious work!

This is the sight of one of our team members.

And that's our table:

Our next game is at 7pm tonight, against Dainamite. So see you later :)

HTWK vs. NTU RoboPAL 4:2

Another game, another win. Actually we were already first in our group, so the outcome was not important for us - but the game was one of the most thrilling so far.

NTU RoboPAL was also doing passes, and they where quite precise (or at least looked like this ;) ) Also their walk is about as fast as ours. So in the end we won 4:2 in a exciting game.

Video will come soon, stay tuned!

Video - HTWK vs Nao Devils, First Half

As promised earlier, here the video of the first half against Nao Devils:

HTWK vs Berlin United ... 5:0!!!

And another win for us! :-) That's it for today, our next game will be tomorrow at 12:20 against NTU RoboPAL.

Video: HTWK vs. RoboCanes, 1st Half

The first half of the second game in the first group stage.

Queen Máxima visits the SPL

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands just visited our Standard Platform League at the RoboCup Eindhoven 2013.

 

After we had cleaned everything for her, we collected all Naos from all teams, and set up a really nice Photo.

HTWK vs. Nao Devils ... 6:1!!!

We're just returning from a very exciting game against Nao Devils. This was the first game of the 2nd group phase and we won 6:1!!! We'll try to upload the game today, so you guys have something to watch in the evening. :-)

Queen Máxima visits RoboCup

Today Queen Máxima will visit the RoboCup, and she will pass by our table!




We just had to clean the narrow corridor for her, and some nice organizers helped ;)












Look forward to our fotos :D

Video: HTWK vs. UChile, 2nd half

The 2nd half of our first game is now available as well!

Video: HTWK vs. UChile, 1st half

Thanks to the fast internet, we already have the first half of our game against UChile cut and on YouTube!

2nd Game, 2nd Win! :-)

We just finished playing our game against RoboCanes from Miami and won 5:0!

This means we'll advance to the second group phase, skipping the Intermediate Round that takes place until lunch tomorrow.

Our next game is Friday at 14:40 against Nao Devils or Northern Bites.
We'll also upload the first videos this evening.

First victory captured - HTWK vs UChile 8:0

We just won the first official game of this year's RoboCup with 8:0 against UChile. Yey :D

Halftime against UChile

Stream online!

There is a stream online from the RoboCup. It shows different leagues of the RoboCup alternatingly. Check out, but mute before.. ;)

www.robocuptv.nl

Being Visitor at the robocup

So you are a visitor at the RoboCup, what can you do? This year especially the architecture and setup of the championship venue is interesting. There is some empty space between the different leagues which is used to create a quiet environment where you can calm down. Also there is an extra food area where you can buy Lunch or Dinner.  You can also find some unique robots. For example there is a complete robot band present.

Of course the exhibitors and sponsors have booths. For all different age groups exist interesting workshop tracks and of course there are all the games from the different leagues. Highlight for the youngest ones are the Pleos. Robot dinosaurs which can act as a pet. See for yourselves:

Third preparation day ends

This was our third and last preparation day. The official games will start tomorrow. In the last few days we tuned our team strategy, adapted our walking and vision. We played a few test games and won each one. This is great! But we saw so much more potential for improvements. Also a few interesting projects from our team members are on their way which will improve our game even more.

We also talked about the upcoming plan for 2014 and on. We decided that we will do a tick/tock model. Last year we implemented a complete architecture, this year we improved our game play and subsystems, 2014 we will review our architecture and will adapt it to the requirements.

New this year: We have internet the whole time!:D We finally have a managed switch which protects the teams from network configuration errors. Also the wifi hotspots are managed by trained personnel. We as team shared our experiences from the last robocups and adapted with his help the wifi configuration so the wifi was working flawless this evening. You see on the image above the new jerseys for the Naos. We have to switch them on every half-time.

Open Challenge, Timetable and Results

We participated at the Open Challenge (like every year :)). Our presentation was about "Sparse Feature Learning for Visual Robot Angle Estimation" . After the results came back we've got a solid second place after BHuman.

The timetable for the upcoming days is ready as well as the result page. We try to upload the games as fast as possible in our YouTube channel.

And at the end: This is the whole SPL this year:

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