ZXRoux (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

their are controler by a remote control or are automatic???

ic3cold29 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

automated

ferjero989 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

are they automated or controlled?

DarkGeneral86 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

sweeeet!!!!!.....I wanna try these robos....

dylan201d (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i wana play also you cant even see the ball they hit it how are you suppose to guard against that?

GustavHassager (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

fucking nice

Sn0wZer0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The goal is to beat a human team by 2050. I don't think we'll make it by then, but eventually someone will. Like computer chess, it'll take a long time and a lot of work, but someone will get there eventually. I've moved on, but I'm happy to have done my part, and written papers about it, so that others can use it to build on.

Sn0wZer0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks. Once all the other sensing, control, and aiming was in place, I was able to stay up late one night and get a half working corner kick. The next day, the other team members could barely believe it. With a lot of tuning, it got to be about 50% successful by the competition. I will never forget turning that on for our fist game (we turned it off against weaker opponents to avoid giving it away). The first one worked and most of the people couldn't believe what they just saw.

Sn0wZer0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's worth pointing out that while the individual robots are not autonomous, the robots+computer "system" is autonomous. Once the ref's whistle blows, the humans cannot touch it. There is another league "middle size", which has larger robots without remote sensing (all the cameras + sensors must be on the robots). However, with wifi communication, it's still not really "distributed" intelligence like a human team, since the robots can share so much data. Give it time though :)

Sn0wZer0 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Sorry for the late response. We had a team of 3 people in '06. I did most of the programming/control/AI, and another team member designed and built the robots. We all had a lot of input on each other's work, and worked closely during the development. After 2006, the rules were changed to limit kicking speed to 10 m/s. Our kicker's top speed in the above video was 15 m/s, which we enabled about 1/3 the way through the competition.