[robocup-nao] Call for participation to Robotstadium 2009

Yvan Bourquin yvan.bourquin at cyberbotics.com
Fri Apr 17 09:29:36 EDT 2009


Call for participation to Robotstadium 2009:

http://www.robotstadium.org

Robotstadium is an on-line programming contest based on the rules of the Nao
RoboCup Standard Platform League. The Robotstadium contest is free of charge
and open to everyone. The contest is already active and can be joined at any
time. The finals will be held during the RoboCup 2009 (beginning of July).
Robotstadium uses a Webots based realistic simulation of Nao robot and
soccer field. Each competitor programs a team of Nao robots using the Java,
C/C++, or Python programming languages.

The winning team will receive 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs) and a Webots PRO
software package. Other prices will be available for the second and third
ranking competitors. Not enough? We also encourage you to donate items
(robot, voucher, software, hardware, etc.) or cash to the future winners: it
is possible to make an on-line
donation<http://robotstadium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=34>on
the Robotstadium website.

A round of matches is played every week day. The recent matches can be
watched here<http://robotstadium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=17>.
Currently double.p (Italy) is Robotstadium's champion, who dares to
challenge him?

The current ranking is:

   1. double.p (Italy)
   2. Che (Russia)
   3. Borregos_Nao (Mexico)
   4. AsuraFit (Japan)
   5. Cracoucass (Switzerland)

If you want to participate, you can download Webots 6.1.2 from
here<http://www.cyberbotics.com/>and start programming right now!

Robotstadium 2009 uses an accurate model of the NaoV3 "RoboCup" Edition.
This simulation allows you to control the robot's motors, cameras, FSRs,
foot bumpers, inertial unit, LEDs, etc. and provides an accurate physics
simulation (mass centres, motor torques, etc.).  You can find more info
about the simulated Nao robot
here<http://robotstadium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=29>
.

Even if you don't want to participate to Robotstadium, you are welcome to
use the latest Webots <http://www.cyberbotics.com/> and the new Nao V3 model
in your projects. The demo version of Webots will let you use and modify the
Nao controllers (C/C++, Java, Python) associated with the 4 distributed Nao
worlds: nao1.wbt, nao2.wbt, nao4.wbt and robotstadium.wbt. So you are
welcome to use these worlds for training your algorithms for the RoboCup or
for any other purpose.

I hope to see you soon on Robotstadium!
Best regards,

Yvanix

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Yvan Bourquin
Software Engineer
Cyberbotics Ltd.
http://www.cyberbotics.com
+41 21 69 38624
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