Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

Once again we’ve pitched our tents in the canteen for a weekend. There some new features to test and also new hardware.
The LabCam is up and running, providing you with the hottest … well, yes. Here we go: http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/~phbaer/cam/.

Christmas staff party

We’re organizing a Carpe Noctem Christmas party next week. All members, fans, and supporters are [...]

We used the last weekend primarily for testing our learning framework (developed by puto). As a side-effect, we had also time to test the new achievements in out vision system (on Monday morning, 4-6am). One very impressing feature is the new segmentation filter which makes calibration almost dispensable. We were thus able to play with [...]

We’ve moved our field to the canteen this weekend to test some leaning algorithms. Please find our temporary labcam here: http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/~phbaer/cam/.

The recordings of the c’t-Magazin broadcast have been published this week. We will provide a self-cut video (hopefully) by next week. The guys from the hr Studio Kassel promised to send us the recording… I didn’t receive anything up to now.
All the recordings can be found on this webpage:
http://www.heise.de/ct/tv/archiv/20070428
The clips with us are here:
http://www.heise.de/ct/tv/artikel/88686
http://www.heise.de/ct/tv/artikel/88730
Beware: In [...]

The whole Carpe-Noctem-Team has been invited to the c’t-Magazin, a weekly consumer broadcasting recorded in Kassel. We’ve uploaded some pictures, the recording will be available soon. The pictures are a bit blurry, sorry for that.

For all of you, who are interested: the final standings. Unfortunately, only places 1 to 4 are set. The others have to be interpreted accordingly:

Place
Team

1
Brainstormers Tribots

2
CoPS Stuttgart

3
Tech United

4
MINHO

Carpe Noctem

Ulm Sparrows

Mostly Harmless

Paderkicker

5dpo

Sorry for the long delay, but we all had to catch up some sleep. Curiously, we missed the night from Thursday to Friday. On Saturday then we entered the fair at noon and started to clean up our team area and to pack our bags. So I’ll try to reflect the last two days now. [...]

The group assignments for the second round robin matches have been released. According to these we have two matches tomorrow. The first is at 12:00 the second at 14:00. Please find the details below.

Time
Teams

09:00
Brainstormers Tribots
–
Ulm Sparrows

10:00
CoPS
–
Tech United

11:00
Minho
–
Ulm Sparrows

12:00
Carpe Noctem
–
Tech United

13:00
Brainstormers Tribots
–
Minho

14:00
CoPS
–
Carpe Noctem

On Saturday there will be a game for the 5th place at 9:00 if [...]

There’s a very odd event going on downstairs. Some strange alternative hippies along with some even more curious partly undressed not-even-similar-to-soccer-players have taken over control of our (one and only) playing ground. So we are damned to review our code and write senseless blog entries. Kobotroll even suggested to replace these things down there by [...]

What a game! Even though we lost the game and shot an own goal, it was really exciting, very reactive, and cooperative. As in our previous matches the network quality was excellent. No problem with communication for the first time in six years (four years with the Ulm Sparrows).
As far as I’m informed, we’re ranked [...]