small size league
An interview with Nicolai Ommer: the RoboCupSoccer Small Size League
Kick-off in a Small Size League match. RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the art of intelligent robots, AI and automation. The annual RoboCup event is due to take place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The Soccer component of RoboCup comprises a number of Leagues, with one of these being the Small Size League (SSL). We caught up with Executive Committee member Nicolai Ommer to find out more about the SSL, how the auto referees work, and how teams use AI.
Rob\^oCIn Small Size League Extended Team Description Paper for RoboCup 2023
de Oliveira, Aline Lima, Gomes, Cauê Addae da Silva, da Silva, Cecília Virginia Santos, Alves, Charles Matheus de Sousa, de Souza, Danilo Andrade Martins, Xavier, Driele Pires Ferreira Araújo, da Silva, Edgleyson Pereira, Martins, Felipe Bezerra, Santos, Lucas Henrique Cavalcanti, Maciel, Lucas Dias, Santos, Matheus Paixão Gumercindo dos, Vasconcelos, Matheus Lafayette, Andrade, Matheus Vinícius Teotonio do Nascimento, de Melo, João Guilherme Oliveira Carvalho, de Moura, João Pedro Souza Pereira, da Silva, José Ronald, Cruz, José Victor Silva, de Morais, Pedro Henrique Santana, de Oliveira, Pedro Paulo Salman, Rodrigues, Riei Joaquim Matos, Fernandes, Roberto Costa, Morais, Ryan Vinicius Santos, Teobaldo, Tamara Mayara Ramos, Silva, Washington Igor dos Santos, Barros, Edna Natividade Silva
Rob\^oCIn has participated in RoboCup Small Size League since 2019, won its first world title in 2022 (Division B), and is currently a three-times Latin-American champion. This paper presents our improvements to defend the Small Size League (SSL) division B title in RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France. This paper aims to share some of the academic research that our team developed over the past year. Our team has successfully published 2 articles related to SSL at two high-impact conferences: the 25th RoboCup International Symposium and the 19th IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS 2022). Over the last year, we have been continuously migrating from our past codebase to Unification. We will describe the new architecture implemented and some points of software and AI refactoring. In addition, we discuss the process of integrating machined components into the mechanical system, our development for participating in the vision blackout challenge last year and what we are preparing for this year.