Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

We lost the match against 1. RFC Stuttgart (as expected with lots of bad luck). For more information, please, as every time, have a look at http://phbaer.net/2009/07/04/rc2009-match-against-1-rfc-stuttgart-2.
Carpe Noctem vs. 1. RFC Stuttgart – 1:3

Again a quit note (a more verbose post is again

The videos of our previous games during the RoboCup World Championships has been published at http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/~cn/wm2009-videos-cut/. We will also publish the videos of the next games.

During our game versus WinKIT, Ralf Kauter sends an live reportage in the radio station “Deutschlandfunk”. As I have had an interview in the morning with Ralf, many of the information, he mentioned in his reportage, references to our team even if he talks about the midsize league in general. As it is in German, [...]

Again a quick note: We won our second match as well.
Carpe Noctem vs. WinKIT – 2:0

Just a quick note: We won our first match.
Carpe Noctem vs. MRT – 3:0

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 [...]

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 [...]