RoboCup Small Size League

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The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is one of the RoboCup soccer leagues.

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Two teams of six robots which are limited to an 18 cm diameter and 15 cm height play soccer with an orange golf ball. They are identified and tracked by four overhead cameras connected to an off-field computer. The field size is 9metersx6meters. Then robots' and balls' status including their position and id are sent to teams' computers. Their AI software sends commands to the robots based on the vision data.

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As of 2018, there are now two divisions, the B division that continued to use the same parameters as before (6 robots, 9x6 meter field, etc) and the A division that changed a lot of parameters. This change was brought to improve the tournament experience by making the more experienced teams face each other while letting the newer teams improve their algorithms with more balanced face offs.

Division A new parameters

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Small Size Teams

TeamCountry
AnorakFlag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Austrian Cubes Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
B-Smart Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Botnia Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
CMDragons Flag of the United States.svg  USA
Cyrus Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
Eagle Knights Flag of the State of Mexico.svg  México
ER-Force Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Fantasia Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
FarzaneganFlag of Iran.svg  Iran
FURGBolFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
GEAR - USP [ permanent dead link ]Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Immortals Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
KgpKubs Flag of India.svg  India
Khainui Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
KIKSFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
KN2C Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
MRL Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
NEUIslanders Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.svg  Northern Cyprus
Omid Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
Parsian Archived 2009-06-30 at the Wayback Machine Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
Plasma-Z Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
RFC Cambridge Archived 2015-08-24 at the Wayback Machine Flag of the United States.svg  USA
RoboCats Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine Flag of the United States.svg  USA
RoboDragons Archived 2007-11-01 at the Wayback Machine Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
RoboFEI Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
RoboIME Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
RoboJackets Flag of the United States.svg  USA
RoboPET Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
RoboTeam Twente Flag of the Netherlands.svg  The Netherlands
SalamFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Skuba Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
Small Size Holland Flag of the Netherlands.svg  The Netherlands
STOx's Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Strive Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Thunderbots FC Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
ULtronFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Tigers Mannheim Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
UMass MinutebotsFlag of the United States.svg  USA
Warthog Robotics Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Wright Eagle Archived 2015-03-29 at the Wayback Machine Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
ZJUNlictFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China

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