Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

The playing schedule for the first round robin which will take place today, thursday and part of friday is out. As mentioned before, the Carpe Noctem team is in group B. Below all games of Carpe Noctem are summarized:
Wednesday, 01/07/09

10:00 – Carpe Noctem — Hibikino Musashi
13:00 – MRL — Carpe Noctem
16:00 – 1. RFC Stuttgart [...]

Today was the technical challenge in arbitrary ball detetection which was the crucial factor for the game plan concerning the first round robin. The goal was to detect three different kinds of balls (which weren’t known before of course) from different start locations. To make it short: It was really hard for nearly all the [...]

I’ve posted some more of my odd thoughts about Carpe Noctem, the RoboCup World Championships 2009 in Graz, and everything on my private blog. As I’m currently running short in time and don’t want to simply copy things over, please have a look at the following two posts:
RC2009: The First Day
RC2009: The Second Day
Thanks [...]

Teams are now ready for setting up their systems, calibrating cameras, and testing what is actually working. Things like initial network problems and unexpected power lines (influencing electronic compass modules) are well known but still serious issues. Another problem — that is at least well known in our team as we have three fixed ball [...]

The team from Tech United provides livestreams from both playgrounds:

Field 1: http://www.techunited.nl/index.php?p=34
Field 2: http://www.techunited.nl/index.php?p=35

The team has arrived in their hotel in Graz, preparing for the the RoboCup World Championships.
Good luck and see you all on Friday! :) Some team members have never been to a RoboCup World Championship before but some already participated in Bremen 2006. For Kobotroll it’s even the third event of this kind.
I nevertheless suppose [...]

Another article about our team has been published in the journal of the Kassel University. The article can be found at http://www.uni-kassel.de/presse/publik/09_05/S.4.pdf.

In the today’s edition of the HNA – the local daily newspaper – an article about our team and our research activities has been published. You can find the article at http://www.hna.de//kasselstart/00_20090607213443_Roboter_sprechen_sich_eigenstaendig_ab.html. The article is based on a demonstration of our robots and also an interview with one of our team leaders Michael Wagner.