What is RoboCup?

RoboCup is an international research and education initiative, attempting to foster Artificial Intelligence and Robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented education.

For this purpose, RoboCup chose to use the soccer game as a primary domain, and organizes every year The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. Since 2000, the competitions include Search and Rescue robots as well. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated, including: autonomous agents design principles, multi-agent collaboration, real-time planning and control, Robotics, and sensor-fusion. The RoboCup Federation proposed the ultimate goal of the RoboCup Initiative to be stated as follows:

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"By 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer."

 
See also:
www.robocup.org

News

• Tech United Eindhoven is the 2018 worldchampion in the Soccer Midsize League.
• The Joint Rescue Forces won the first prize in the Infrastructure competition of the Rescue Simulation League.
• 6 Dutch major teams and 1 junior team are present at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada.
• In 2018, there is a new Dutch @Work team: Fontys@Work.
• Tech United is the 2017 winner of the Portuguese Open of the MidSize Soccer League
• Team Delft wins the Amazon Picking Challenge.
• Tech United is the 2016 champion of the MidSize Soccer League. .
• RoboCup European Open 2016 is organized in The Netherlands"
• In 2015, there is a new Dutch Small Size team: Small Size Holland.
• Tech United Eindhoven is the 2014 worldchampion in the Soccer Midsize League
• The Amsterdam Oxford Joint Rescue Forces won the first prize in the Infrastructure competition of the Rescue Simulation League.
• The Universiteit Maastricht is the 2013 worldchampion of the RoboCup@Work League

• In 2013, the RoboCup community has visited the Netherlands, June 24-30 in Eindhoven.

 
Mission

The RoboCup Dutch Committee has the aim to promote the RoboCup initiative in the Netherlands.

The committee specific responsibilities are:

1. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited.
2. Serve as a point of contact for local RoboCup events and RoboCup Opens.
3. Promote RoboCup within the Netherlands.
4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within the Netherlands and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition.
5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in the Netherlands.
    
    

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