The interested team must provide the following qualification material for evaluation to the technical committee of the humanoid robot league.
Team Data:
team name
www home page of the team
name of team leader or team contact person
e-mail addreass of team leader or contact person
postal address of the team
competition class: kid or teen or both
A video of a demonstration of sufficient skills of your team's autonomous, soccer playing humanoid robots. Namely the following skills must be demonstrated in the video:
localization of unknown ball position,
walking ability towards the ball,
robot positioning at the ball for kicking,
kicking the ball towards the goal,
ability of getting up autonomously from a fall.
The maximum duration of the video is 5 minutes. The video must be supplied as a link to it at YouTube. No video means no qualification.
A team description paper which fully describes your humanoid robot system, your research interests and a summary of previous relevant work and publications. The paper must be concise and of 6 pages maximum. The TDP must be according to the LNCS format which can be downloaded from here. The paper must be submitted in PDF format.
A one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of humanoid robot used by the team that includes the followings:
Robot picture
Robot name
Number of degrees of freedom
Type of motors
Computing unit
Camera
Sensors
Walking speed
Other specs
Deadline for submission: February 6, 2009
Announcement of qualified teams: February 23, 2009
The technical details on how and where to submit all qualifying material will be announced soon.
Technical and Organization Committees
of RoboCup Humanoid League 2009