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European Junior RoboSoccer Project at Belvidere School
Posted on Thursday, May 11 @ 07:29:07 BST
Topic: Information about RobocupJunior UK
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As tensions rise in the run-up to next month’s FIFA World Cup, pupils at a school in Shropshire are busy preparing for the robotic equivalent, RoboCup 2006, to be held in Bremen on 14-18 June. Staff and students at Belvidere School, Shrewsbury have been busy manufacturing robot bodies not only for themselves, but also for schools in Germany and Portugal. They are collaborating on a project to design, build and program teams of soccer-playing robots to compete in the RoboCupJunior world finals in Bremen. The project is funded by the European Community’s Socrates programme.
Belvidere School’s computer aided manufacturing facilities and the expertise of its Design & Technology and IT staff have played a crucial role in the multinational project. IT technician Matthew Griffiths converted the robot chassis design (created by students at one of the Portuguese partner schools) into detailed plans for the cutting and assembly of all the layers required for the laminated bodies. The components were then accurately cut out of 5mm thick acrylic sheets using a computer-controlled laser cutter in the school’s Alcoa Centre, under the supervision of assistant headmaster Mark Walton and Dr Ashley Green of The Open University.
The robot bodies have been produced in the colours of each partner school’s national or regional flag: black-red-yellow for Germany, blue and white stripes for Bavaria, red-green for Portugal, and red, white and blue stripes for the UK. The completed bodies have been shipped off to Germany and Portugal for the addition of motors, wheels, sensors, solenoids, batteries and electronics.
Dr Green runs Belvidere’s after-school robot club and is a member of the RoboCupJunior international organising committee. He and teacher David Hess will be taking six enthusiastic members of the robot club to Bremen on 13th June to meet up with their German and Portuguese team-mates and prep their robots for five days of intense activity. They’ll compete against the best Junior RoboSoccer teams from across the world. During their spare time, they’ll watch some of the world’s leading robotics researchers and their robots in action in the senior leagues, and visit the “Service Robotics” exhibition co-located with RoboCup in the Bremen Convention Center.
RoboCup is an international effort whose purpose is to foster Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. As well, the initiative serves as a basis for project-oriented education. The ultimate goal of RoboCup is that, by the year 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall play (and win!) a soccer game against the (human) world champions.
RoboCupJunior is designed to introduce RoboCup to primary and secondary schoolchildren, as well as undergraduates who do not have the resources to get involved in the senior leagues. The focus in the junior league is on education.
In Junior RoboSoccer, robots play on a greyscale pitch, using an infrared emitting ball. This avoids the need for the complex image processing techniques required in the senior leagues.
Participating Schools
Belvidere School, Shrewsbury, UK
Bishop Challoner RC School, Birmingham, UK
Escola Profissional Cenatex, Guimaraes, Portugal
Escola Profissional Gustave Eiffel, Amadora, Portugal
Illertal Gymnasium Vohringen, Germany
Simpert Kraemer Gymnasium Krumbach, Germany
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