RoboCup 2006 SSL Champion Highlights

[TheShadowstalker92]

Tommy, don't look at your robot when it kicks to ball, you'll put your eye out.

[Sn0wZer0]

@SawQuart: These are custom robots and are not for sale. Putting a cost on them is difficult due to all the labor involved (one person spent nearly an entire year building the 7 robots). The way we usually quoted it was "each robot is about $2000 USD of parts and near infinite labor". I know of one team that had an outside company build its robots, and it ran about $10K/robot.

These are kind of like race cars, very custom, expensive, and hard to maintain, but extremely good at what they do.

[22bearsfan]

how fast did that bot kick the ball at 0:20?!?!

[Sn0wZer0]

@22bearsfan: In perfect conditions, the kicker was about 14 m/s; on the robots in game conditions, the top speed was typically 13.5m/s. For comparison, that's 30 mph, which is quite fast on this small scale.

After 2006, the competition limited kickers to 10m/s to avoid starting an "arms race", and making sure future teams still focused on soccer play.

[karatsu21]

does this cathegory have a special name?

i mean when i say that robots will maybe beat humans in 2050, people will think about humanous robots. but how is this class called?

[Sn0wZer0]

@karatsu21: This is the RoboCup Small-Size League. There is also a Middle-Size League which plays with a real soccer ball. For humanoids, there are various events and size classes, but I wasn't involved with them, so check robocup.org for the latest information.

[AngWenZhong]

like they have minds of themselves.

they pass to each other so smoothly

[Oforzaese23O]

Belli! Appena si abbassa il prezzo a 4532526532632 di euro me li compro! xD

Vabbe,comunque il portiere è scarso! asd

[Lead0fRugrats]

yo they kick it soo fast dude i couldnt see it with my own eyes!!! amazing

[heyawhaw]

teeehee ... they need high speed cameras to capture this properly

[Sn0wZer0]

@heyawhaw: Believe it or not, we got away with off-the-shelf 3CCD camcorders, getting 60fps by manually de-interlacing. If I recall correctly, they were Panasonic PV-GS70's, or at least some camcorder in that line.

Nowadays people use faster and higher resolution firewire or ethernet cameras.

[rhyboy1]

are these controlled or programmed?

[choutube]

programmed

[liam839rshelper]

porgrammed there is a camera above the feild that goes into their programs the robots know where there team mate is by the dots on the top of the robots

[Ksiezyc9]

niedługo będziem oglądać Lige Mistrzów w wykonaniu robotów...

[gukonni]

Shoots the ball WAY too fast. I don't think I'd enjoy that. Slow it down a bit so I can follow the ball a bit, eh? They use gunpowder???

[firstsensation]

awsome

[tekilamarco]

The ball arrives at the door in 1 / 24 of a second XD

[DeimosSaturn]

I can't wait for the day when the robot mafia controls the outcome of the robot soccer league.

[ACE46hit]

the cool thing is there doing it by them sefls

[kingdomgod777]

1:52 xD

[gedaman182]

lol got it!

[MenTaLLyMenTaL]

Amazing! The AI, speed, and mechanisms are gr8.

[LosAztecas]

Holy shit! A.I.-driven?! That's amazing, I could've sworn the A.I. can't figure out those pass-plays that I just saw. Cool video!

[cab711]

Wow thats awesome.

[Rhiank321]

wonder how much people pay for robocup tickets lol

[Garciat33]

That is so fucking awesome.

[ZXRoux]

1:26 thats a great goal

[luisavilagarcia]

juegan con madre ...

[fluido82]

ohh, i have two questions dude, how many leages are in the robocup? and which is the difference between them? thank you.

[fluido82]

hi dude, the AI is amazing. Great work, you said something about some papers you wrote, do you have a webpage or something? I play pro evolution soccer, i think the AI of the game is very good, do you know someone in konami, i was thinking, you can work together for the team of 2050..

[ZXRoux]

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

[ferjero989]

are they automated or controlled?

[ic3cold29]

automated

[DarkGeneral86]

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

[dylan201d]

i wana play

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

[GustavHassager]

fucking nice

[saltsmcdars]

hackin Nerds!

Get a life simps.

Try curing cancer or something.

[psyman88]

weak... that (below) was meant to be a reply to duceyfan500's comment how do i reply to peoples comments

[waken12]

wow there was some basic team play! great programming!

[wushuohao]

i'm from zju,china and really admire what cmu has already done in this game. it's cool!

[roadkiller179971]

hey the world will be for robot's!!!!!!.

[duceyfan500]

It's okay, but robots will never measure up to a pro team.

[qwertychaos]

thats the ultimate aim... to win a match agains the human world champions...

[duceyfan500]

I know that's the ultimate aim, but it ain't happening. The human world champions will always dominate!

[ecreif]

you definatly wrong.. wait till cpus are fast enough for calculating really big neuronal networks and artificial muscles being faster and stronger than human muscles.. a bot could run 3 times faster, communticate faster and preciser then human and work out tactical moves a human cant even understand in the given time.. they can make shots that a human isnt even able to react. the only thing to go is to improve recognition of pattern and cpu speed.. the algorithms are already there

[Teenplayer84]

unless they have lasers

[psyman88]

wouldnt bet on that

[bplturner]

I would.

[Sn0wZer0]

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.

[streetslugger]

wow amazing accuracy

[Keego05]

The corner was class.

GERRARD!!!! AHH YAAAAAA BEAUTIEEEEEE!!!!!!

[esamuelm]

WTF thats amazing O.O!! nice goals

[featheredmusic]

WTF, that's amazing, that aim and speed is fantastic

[staphinfection]

Holy shit... That corner kick was fucking sick.

[Sn0wZer0]

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.

[stevenDOTdanger]

What I want to know is: are the robots in communication with each other? Is there any sort of inter-robot transmissions going on during the game?

[Kangoor]

snowzero answered that question page before. They are remotely controlled by one computer. That's what I think when I saw them first. Their moves are too much accurate and synchronised for a autonomous control. I would like to see those robots controlled autonomously. In this scheme the problem reduces 'only' to central-planned algorithm like in FIFA? I quote 'only', cause it must had been a great effort to program them to act like that. They cooperate real smooth, great job!

[Kangoor]

BTW: Did your job included constructing these robots or 'only' to programm them to play?

As to speed of shooting: IMHO there should be stated in regulations a maximum velocity of a ball shot by a robot to give blocker any possibility to catch the ball. Altough I see, now it requires a not-so-little bit of strategy during blocking the attacks.

[bplturner]

The maximum speed is 10m/s.

[Sn0wZer0]

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.

[Sn0wZer0]

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 :)

[ghostman515005]

nope . they are controlled by one computer . do you notice the colours on the top of each robot. it is a colour code seen by a camera on top which is connected to a computer which controlls the robot =)

[xparet0209]

wtf!!!??

how du you build und programm this?

[furcino]

Great work. I hope my university will participate on these kinds of events. So far we have a local simulated Robocup and they are preparing a 3d simulation where you basically just program the players and watch the screen, but this looks like a real challenge.

[VideoJunkei]

sorry, the goalie robot seems useless to block fast shooting..needs to be bigger!!!

[Sn0wZer0]

There's a size limit on the robots (180mm diameter, or 7"). Most robots are just slightly less than the maximum size, so they can't get any bigger and fit within the rules. To make up for it, you'll see most teams use 2 or 3 robots to defend the goal.

[wazzaa4u]

Wow! It would be more fun to watch if they didn't shoot so fast tho. But still amazing.

[hurikai]

amazing, especially with ball in the air.

[sk8terXP]

sweet :P

[Ki171]

too fast shoot lol

[haaampie]

Love it !! :D

[smellyicecreem]

well thats just plain cool

[smellyicecreem]

wow cool so do they have people useing them lol or is it like artofisual intelegents

[Sn0wZer0]

During the game, no human control is allowed. So, everything you see here was decided by a computer next to the field, using cameras over the field to see the robots. Each robot is driven remotely by this computer, and as soon as the whistle blows to start play, humans cannot touch the robots or the computer.

[tokicobrothers]

coooooooooooool

[pasikoo]

They are autonomous robots.

[Fablus22]

are they controlled by the team, or do the act by KI

[icvids]

these things are amazing. one day, i hope to see the humanoid robots also play as a team with as much speed as these do. thanks for the video.

[Sn0wZer0]

Thanks. The hope is that humanoids can eventually play like this. With different leagues, we can attack the problem from different angles, and get to the overall goal faster: A humanoid team that can compete against the world cup champion.

[drcarlos024]

<3 robots

THIS LITTLE GUYS ARE FAST MAN lol

thanks for posting this vid

[Sn0wZer0]

Thanks, and your timing is good: The 2007 competition starts today. If you check back in a few weeks we should have some more videos.

[DeadH4nd]

DAMN thats amazing

[CmdrSammo]

Wow, this is sensational. I spent hours trying to get decent play going on the RoboCup simulator for an AI module at uni, but they were nothing compared to this. Seriously these guys could probably give a few human teams a good game. 2050 is gonna be eassssyyy!

[lynntriz]

Ah man! I'd love to be a part of the cmu team! This is the best I've seen ever!

[Sn0wZer0]

Are you on a team? There are a couple good teams in Singapore, although neither seems to be entering SSL this year.

[mifulapirus]

fucking awesome!!!

[Luce]

This is awesome!

[alzaman]

They behave beautifully!

I've only ever seen RoboCup where the robots have to do SLAM - and it's rarely elegant. It's lovely to watch how good the play becomes when they have good external position information.

[alzaman]

They behave beautifully!

I've only ever seen RoboCup where the robots have to do SLAM - and it's rarely elegant. It's lovely to watch how good the play becomes when they have good external position information.