We’ve arrived in Kassel yesterday at about 9pm. After unloading our baggage and the robots everybody went straight home. It was a very exciting, interesting but also exhausting week. We’ve achieved something we would have never anticipated. The cooperation within the team was very good and the comments from other teams were really motivating.
In the final standing we are ranked on the seventh place. Even though our two team leaders are with the RoboCup community for many years, we’re a new team with hardware and software written completely from scratch! Please find the final standings below.
We would like to thank Prof. Dr. K. Geihs who supported the team and made it possible for us to participate in the RoboCup World Championships 2006 in Bremen. We would furthermore like to thank the Precision Engineering Workshop of Kassel University who helped us to build such a competitive robot platform. Mostly Harmless RoboCup Team provided high pressure for our kicking device and some missing mechanical parts (screws). Mario Schierhold from Aqua Sport Bremen provided compressed air for our kicker at no cost as well. Thanks! Because our hook-and-loop tape was over, CoPS provided us a meter or two. Thanks for that but the glue was old :P
Many other teams were interested especially in our rotating kicking device. Maybe we can see it in some other robot next year? I’m anxious to it. We will try to improve our architectures, both hard- and software, until the next tournament. Especially the communication subsystem will be changed, but also the vision needs some more work. We hope for our current team members and new students to help us improving our team performance!
The final standings:
- Brainstormers Tribots
- CoPS Stuttgart
- EIGEN Keio University
- FU-Fighters
- Attempto Tübingen
- Hibikino-Musashi
- Ulm Sparrows + Carpe Noctem
- MINHO
- The Orient
- Osaka Trackies
- Philips RoboCup Team
- ISePorto Team
- WinKIT
- AIS/BIT Robots
- Jiao Long + NuBot
- Persian Gulf + MRL
- 5DPO-2000
- Robofoot ÉPM
- TechUnited + Paderkickers
- TKU-ITRI
- ISocRob-MSL + CAMBADA
- MRT - Milan Robocup Team
- Mostly Harmless + AllemaniACs
June 19th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
I would like to thank the whole team for this nice, interesting but sometimes exhausting week. I think we will be successful next year….Thanks to all team members….
June 19th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
I also want to thank everybody in the team and all the others I met and talked to during the week at the Robocup in Bremen. It was very interesting and - of course - exhausting (espcially with no Red Bull available :))) ). But all in all it was totally worth it. Im pretty sure that we will improve both hard- and (even more) software to keep ourselves competitive and fit to the rules of the next Robocup.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Congratulations and mega-thanks to the whole team!!!