Achievements
- Quarter Finals at 2006 FIRA International Championship (Singapore)
- 1st place 2006 UK MiroSot Simulation Championship
- 2nd place at 2007 UK MiroSot Championship
The Warwick Robot Football is now set-up in the Digital Laboratory
Previous teams have entered the robot football competition known as
MiroSot, regulated by the global federation FIRA (Federation of
International Robosoccer Association). The aim this competition is to
produce a competitive team of FIRA certified robots, 7.5cm square.
MiroSot is an inter-university competition consisting of 5 robots a side,
using a computer controlled algorithm to calculate robot positions, based on
data from a vision system. Last year we achieved 2nd place at the UK
national championships and we are confident we can improve on this result in
2008.
UPDATE: This year we managed to place first at the UK National MiroSot
Championships, achieving our original goal.
FIRA MiroSot is the Robot Football competition in which we participate. The
concept is fairly simple, to get two teams of robots, with five robots per
side, to play game of football completely autonomously. Each robot is
limited in size to a maximum of a 7.5cm cube. The ball that the teams play
with is an orange golf ball. Above the pitch is a machine vision camera
running at 60 frames per second. This camera is linked back to a server
which then calculates the positions and velocities of each of the robots and
ball, from which it determines what each robot should be doing. These
instructions are then communicated to the robots over a wireless link.