Robotics Erlangen is a group of students at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Since 2006 the team participates in international robot soccer competitions, the RoboCup. The robots are developed and constructed by the students. The game is played autonomously, with 5 robots per team.

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

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Published on Monday, 10 October 2011 19:35

After the Robo Cup in Istanbul we have progressed a lot on our new systems. The control system is nearly ready to facilitate a noise free navigating of the robots on the field. A prototype of the chip kick has already been tested and several parts of the drive train which caused some problems have been replaced. So we take the challenge of the completion of our new robot generation step by step.

Besides these improvements on our new system, our six old robots have been repaired. The broken motors have been exchanged and their shoot was modified in order to ensure their proper functionality during the game.

Thus with our old and new robots, we will be able to run test games without an external opponent. Our old robots with our old strategy will help us developing our new system, including the new hardware and the new strategy.

In order to present our current systems and gain a little more attention by the public we will participate at the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” (Long night of sciences) in Erlangen on October 22nd. There everybody is free to visit our Robo Lab with the soccer playing robots in the cellar of the computer science tower, Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen.

There everybody will be able to watch fascinating matches and listen to interesting presentations of our systems.

ER-Force at RoboCup 2011 in Istanbul

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Published on Wednesday, 06 July 2011 15:00

Since July 4th we are on the World Championship of robot-soccer in Istanbul, Turkey. 20 teams are fighting for the cup in small-size-league. There are more than 10 different leagues at all. After being arrived without problems on Monday and having found the hotel around 1 a.m. we started tuedsday morning by tramway und subway to the event location near the airport.

Arrived there we worked immediately on our new robot generation. As we had not enough time in the last month we had to set up the robots on site. On today's Wednesday we are continung and will properbly be working at this project tomorrow, too. Most likely we have to use the old robot generation for our first games.

More of them, please!

For today's afternoon a test game against Tigers Mannheim is planned. They are a new team in SSL and beside us the only German team. We hope to be able to test our new strategy in this game.

Qualification Video RoboCup 2011

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Published on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 03:15

This year as well, we will participate at RoboCup. The competitions take place in July in Istanbul, Turkey. Here is our qualification video: