Victory~ 10:0 :D!

After many many many fixes our robots played very well and scored a safe 10:0 against HULKs.

We are in the SEMI-FINALS :D!! Tomorrow we have to face Nao-Devils. It's going to be a very difficult match.

HTWK vs HULKs

15:15 + DELAY: HTWK vs. Hamburg Ultra Legendary Kickers -HULKs

stay tuned :D

live stream is up again, but still with a bad connection: Live Stream

live stream is broken

The organizer of the live stream seems to have trouble supporting a stable connection. Hopefully they or we can fix this :x

Quarter-finals!!

The Quarter-finals are about to begin. We're going to play against the Dutch Team or HULKs at 15:15.

Let's play some robot soccer :D

The link of the live stream changed: Youtube Live Stream



Scheduel + Results link

Heading home...

After a long and successful day we're heading home. We finally found after several hours of searching at least six bugs which were caused by locking problems. After fixing these issues we had no further problems with excessive memory consumption due to race conditions.

Now it's time for a beer and a few Zzz...

Ball-Detection fun

One of the most important things to win a robot soccer game is to detect the ball.

For humans it seems easy to detect the white-black pattern on a soccer field. But robots do have some problems to tell apart the ball from a cross, a foot or a goalpost.

But with a lot of time, sweat and blood over the last months we taught our robots, how the ball looks like and to recognize it.

Here is a screen shot from our debugging tool :)

Group B 1st place

Our robots scored us to the 1st place of group B! 6:0 against Bembelbots! We are very happy to be victorious, but uneasy about our motion. In the second half we had serious problems in our walking engine.

We are live!

The TechUnited Eindhoven is hosting a livestream at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpG0O8mF3c8

Watch our Game live at 15:15 Uhr!

Match Day 2 - Group Stage

Hello and good morning :) Check out yesterdays results. We are at the top of Group B! whoop whoop~

Yesterday evening we managed to locate the issue, which affected some of our robots to crash during the last game. It is an infinity loop, which occurs spontaneously, resulting in a memory leak.

Today we only have one match at 15:15. We try to keep you updated over the whole day :D 

Working like a horse

Today we worked really hard to accomplish our goals! You could say, that one of our teammates has gone over the edge. But take a look for yourself.

Preparations for the halftime show

We love to entertain! So we prepared a half time show for our visitors. Here you see our first try.

Entertainment for the masses

Here at the RoboCup in Eindhoven we have some exciting competitions!

The visitors have the chance to have fun while learning and working with lovely robots.
For the youngest there are some robot dinosaurs to cuddle and the older ones can find some impressive workshops, for example programming Lego Mindstorms.

Victory!!

We scored 7:0 against Z-Knipsers! Our new Ball Detection has proven itself.
It seems that the Z-Knipsers weren't able to detect the ball, because of that it was a safe match.
In the end of the first half we had some serious issues, which we are currently investigating.

Our next match will be tomorrow. Hopefully we'll find and fix some issues.

Oh, and by the way, the organizers quickly fixed the penalty "cross" yesterday, so there are no white round things on the field anymore... except the ball. :)

Walking down the memory lane

In 2013 at the RoboCup world championship in Eindhoven we discovered a band of awesome music robots. You may have seen them already on other websites and we met them again to see pure steel and rock'n'roll here at the European Open. It's always nice to meet old friends!

Match Day 1 - Group Stage

Hey everyone! Are you ready for some awesome robot soccer?! Today we're going to have our first match. :D

Schedule + Results: https://www.robocupeuropeanopen.org/en/matches/schedule-standard-platform-league

Preparation Day Summary

The preparation day is over. After a hard fight over several hours, we won against the evil WiFi lord. Our new Ball-Detection is working nice and stable, additionally we managed to improve its runtime. Tomorrow at 15:15 the Ball-Detection has to prove itself for the first time. Sadly, there are no live streams planned. But we try to keep you updated all the time!

We are excited, but it's time to sleep. Have a good night :)

First Day First Drama :D

Today our robot soccer summer season starts. We are currently participating at the European Open in Eindhoven and as a surprise we got more balls on the field as expected. :D

This year the SPL got a new ball, which the robots have to deal with. It's a huge challenge for all teams.

Because of that, the outcome of the tournament is nearly unpredictable.






The field is supposed to have crosses instead of circles, which can easily be classified as a ball. :)
So we are going to see, if the field gets fixed or if we can play with circles.

Reaching Eindhoven

 We arrived in Eindhoven this evening :-D

Happy Eastern

Hey there :D Hope you had joyful Easter holidays! Sadly we had no time to search for Easter Eggs, but finally we can detect the new ball !! ;D We are almost prepared for the RoboCup European Open 2016, which starts on 31.03.2016 in Eindhoven.
Stay tuned for fancy robot pictures and hopefully awesome soccer results.

NaoHTWK at the Leipzig Book Fair

Hey Everyone! The Leipzig Book Fair 2016 is still on going.
You can visit us tomorrow at hall 2 - B 400 !!

Play with us and win a coupon for the RoboCup 2016!! Let's play!