Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

Our robots are driving in the plane only. Even though they are able to move freely in two dimensions, they are still unable to utilise the third dimension. A friend of mine conducts research in the area of realtime systems and QuadCopters. He has recently released a demo video on his webpage that shows the [...]

Allow us to introduce to you our new team member ALICA:

A Language (for) Interactive Cooperative Agents

Fransen stars in the new Carpe Noctem commercial by Martin:

Further video formats:

XVid: Spot-large.avi
Flash: Spot-large.flv

The following mail from the RoboCup executive committee arrived this morning. Even though it still reads a bit doubtful, it is a long-awaited signal for participants. Frankly, I’m happy not to take part in the RoboCup world championships this year…

Dear RoboCuppers,
Thank you very much for your patience regarding the status of RoboCup
2008. We are [...]

Just a few hours ago a mail from the RoboCup federation dropped in, stating that the RoboCup World Championships in Suzhou, China, will be cancelled:

Due to the Olympic related issues, the Government in Suzhou, China
will not be able to hold RoboCup 2008 IN JULY. [...]

Is this a fake or not? We are not sure yet. [...]

The RoboCup German Open 2008 are over but some teams are looking forward to the RoboCup World Championships in Suzhou, China in about two months. We will not take part as we do not have the funding and nobody has any free time left. We concentrated on the German Open with more or less success. [...]

We’ve lost the half final against CoPS Stuttgart with 1:2 but the game was great! We shot the first goal and hit a ball CoPS kicked on our goal line into our own goal (sad but ok). Both teams decided to go for a golden goal in the extra time. CoPS’ players were more concentrated [...]

Today the games of the second round robin were scheduled, staring at 11am with Carpe Noctem against Brainstormer Tribots. We never really thought about shooting a goal against the current world champions and we lost 0:6 but the game was far from boring.
The second game today against the double mixed team Mostly Harmless+Ulm Sparrows+FH Ravensburg/Weingarten [...]

The second and last game for today finally looked good. The first half was chaotic like before. At halftime we decided to force roles on the robots instead of calculating them with the role assignment.
With that we were able to win the game against ISePorto with 0:3.
One step closer to Robocup German Open 2008 champion!

Today’s game was much better than the last one. We won 4:0 against PaderKickers.
It was not perfect but no robot stopped working completely.
We still have problems when there are too many of our players on the field. The new static communication-middleware was a huge success and made this game possible. Since it is static it [...]