Designing a Team of Soccer-Playing Humanoid Robots

• Author: Sven Behnke, Michael Schreiber, Maren Bennewitz, Jörg Stückler, Hauke Strasdat, and Johannes Schwenk
  


• In Proceedings of 37th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2006) and 4th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK 2006), Munich, Germany, 05/2006.
  
  
• Abstract:
  Robotic soccer superseded chess as a challenge problem and benchmark for artificial intelligence research and poses many challenges for robotics. The international RoboCup championships grew to the most important robotic competition worldwide. After preliminary competitions, for the first time soccer games with humanoid robots were played in Osaka 2005. This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of our robots, which took part as team NimbRo at the competitions. The paper also covers the software used for perception, behavior control, communication, and simulation. Our robots performed well at RoboCup 2005. They came in second and third in the overall Best Humanoid ranking, next only to the titleholder, Team Osaka.
  
  
• Paper: ROBOTIK06_Behnke.pdf