Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

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 [...]

We are planning to publish our software (used for the RoboCup World Championships this year in Bremen) under some open source license this year. The Brainstormers Tribots published the code they used in the RoboCup German Open 2005 tournament.
If you’re interested in our software framework, please contact us.

Our last match against FU-Fighters ended 0:4 for Berlin. It was real fun, even for the referee. Our robots did very well, the goalie defeated many potential goals for our opponents.
This was our first participation at a RoboCup tournament. We achieved the eighth place which is much more we ever hoped for. At 15:30 we’ll [...]

The last two hours we had two games in a row again. The first against Attempto Tübingen, the second one against CoPS Stuttgart. Both games were vivid and nice to watch. We lost the game against Attempto 0:3, the game against CoPS 0:7. Our performance was not as good as yesterday but it was real [...]

… and we’re one of them! This morning at 10 we scored three goals against The Orient. The final result was 3:1. Bart suddenly smoked like a chimney: cable fire. Afterwards we lost 0:4 against Hibikino-Musashi. During the game the lightning conditions changed, i.e. the sun came out :), and obstructed our players. The (simple [...]

We’ve lost our last game against CoPS Stuttgart with 2:5. It was a great game, six CoPS against four Carpe Noctem Robots and one Ulm Sparrow. We’ve improved a lot in the last hours. After annoying ourselves with stupid networking problems, fighting against lightning and calibration issues, this game showed what we can do.
Our goalie, [...]

We won the game against TKU-ITRI. This time the network was ok and mops (our keeper) intercepted every ball. For him it actually was a very boring game, not so for us. The ball hit the opponent’s goal many times (at least eight times) but unfortunately only four of them were scored. This is [...]

There’s a gallery available for RoboCup2006. You can find it here: http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/gallery2/v/das-lab/Bremen2006/.

This game ended in a tie–again: 0:0. It was a great game without any severe network problems. To avoid further communication breakdown, we will not reboot our laptops today (because of the wireless lan problem we experienced yesterday). Let’s hope that our performance gets even better during the next two games.

Even though the game ended in a tie, it was HORRIBLE! Well, not the game but the network … again. This time it was (I suppose) some hidden access point or station that killed our Centrino Wireless Lan cards (3945). At a moment’s notice our notebooks got unreachable after reboot. Firmware error. It would [...]