Soccer robot

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NimbRo-OP2X Humanoid Soccer Robot at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal NimbRo-OP2X Humanoid Soccer Robot at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal.jpg
NimbRo-OP2X Humanoid Soccer Robot at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal

A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of football.

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The main organised competitions are RoboCup or FIRA tournaments played each year.

The RoboCup contest currently has a number of football leagues:

Additionally, there is a RoboCupJunior league for younger students.

qfix Soccer robot

qfix "Terminator" Qfix-Terminator.jpg
qfix "Terminator"

The qfix football robot "Terminator" is an omnidrive robot that can be used for RoboCup Junior. It includes a kicker and a dribbler as well as a controller board with Atmel controller.

The robot can be programmed using the GNU GCC compiler.

Graupner RC-SOCCERBOT

The Graupner "RC-SOCCERBOT" is a mobile robot platform developed by qfix which can be used as a radio-controller toy playing soccer with ping-pong balls. Gaining more experience in robotics the user can also implement C++ programs on the robot. [2]

References

  1. Ficht, Grzegorz; Farazi, Hafez; Brandenburger, Andre; Rodriguez, Diego; Pavlichenko, Dmytro; Allgeuer, Philipp; Hosseini, Mojtaba; Behnke, Sven (November 2018). "NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-Sized Open-Source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot". 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Beijing, China: IEEE. pp. 1–9. arXiv: 1810.08395 . Bibcode:2018arXiv181008395F. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038. ISBN   978-1-5386-7283-9. S2CID   53044123.
  2. "RC-SOCCERBOT" (PDF). elektronik.nmp24.de.