RoboCup is a project that past members (now graduated) worked on. The project is very advanced and requires knowledge in not only complex harware and mechanical solutions but advance AI algorithms as well. The fist year the club competed in 2004, we won the National Championship. The following year we won the National Championship again and went on to the World RoboCup Competition in Osaka, Japan. The club did very well there too by winning the Open Challenge Award. Year to date, the club no longer competes in this competition, however the club may get involved in it again in the future.

What is RoboCup?
The RoboCup Small sized league is a challenging and prestigious competition. It involves a team of 5 robots coordinated by one or more central computers to play soccer autonomously. The computers are connected to a camera mounted above the playing field to capture an image of the field 30 times a second. Image processing software scans the image for the positions and angles of each robot and artificial intelligence algorithms decide the next action for the robots to execute.

To learn more about the RoboCup competition you could visit the RoboCup Federation's website.

More Information

For some pictures of our efforts, take a look at the RoboCup Progress page.

Take a look at the technology that makes RoboCup possible. RoboCup Technology.

Here is our Media & Publications Page.

Our Team

From Left To Right: John Casey, Mike Licitra, Stefan Zickler.

Our team consists of undergraduate students mainly from the field of engineering and computer science. The RoboCup Challenge requires an interdisciplinary approach which includes artificial intelligence, image processing, electronics and of course mechanical engineering. We are certain that within the past years we have gained enough experience and skills to take on this challenge.

Team 2003/2004 Members