RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan
Nagoya was an excellent and exciting host for the
RoboCup 2017
The venue was outside of Nagoya but this was not a
real problem since there was a very fast train connection at any time and on
time.
The Competition
This
year the field size was enlarged to 8m x 14m, and a new zone layout was
established. Using the new layout, the positions and orientation of the
machines for each game could be randomly generated by the referee box. Production got a higher ranking by shorting
the exploration phase and making its evaluation less important. The workpieces
were marked with barcodes, to track specific products by processing stations
and award points for production steps during the game. Unfortunately, this time
the referees had to follow up this process since the realization of the
automatic solution could not f finished on time.
Furthermore, the TC is working towards the
introduction of a new storage station.
This is a long-term effort. This year, the station was only presented and we
discussed how to proceed next year. | |
Our competition always attracted many visitors.
Teams of Austria,
France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland joined the RCLL competition.
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 Team Carologistics ( Germany, Aachen) |  Team ER-Force (Germany, Erlangen) |
 Team BabyTigers-R (Japan) |  Team Solidus ( Switzerland) |
Results of the Playoffs and Finals:
Place
|
Team
|
Score
|
1.
|
Carologistics
( RWTH Aachen, Germany)
|
102
|
2.
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GRIPS (TU Graz, Austria)
|
66
|
3.
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Solidus (HFTM Mittelland, Switzerland)
|
40
|
4.
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PYRO (Polytechnique Lille, France)
|
36
|
All teams could
improve their performance in compare to 2016. In particular, the final between
the Carologistics and GRIPS teams was not only very exciting
but also all six robots were fighting for the points up to the last second.
Even the experts ware overburdened to follow up all steps.
After the final both the robots and their teams could shake hands:
 Robots of the Final |  Shake hands after the Final |
Technical Challenge
Additionally,
we had a Technical Challenge consisting of four tasks:
1)
Recognition of a machine without using a marker
2)
Production process at a machine without using a marker
3) Logistics
League simulation game
Winner: Team Carologistics ( RWTH Aachen, Germany)
RoboCup German Open 2017,
May 03-07, 2017
This event again took place in Magdeburg. It
is always a very good preparation to test the new specifications of the
rulebook.
The
result oft he playoffs and the finals:
Place
|
Team
|
Score
|
1.
|
Carologistics
( RWTH Aachen, Germany)
|
76
|
2.
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SmartBots@Ulm ( Germany)
|
30
|
3.
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Solidus (HFTM Mittelland, Switzerland)
|
22
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4.
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BabyTigers-R ( Ruykoku University, Japan)
|
20
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