Review Performance on Red Square
Together with many other university groups from the technical faculty, we were once again able to draw attention to our activities and projects on Red Square at the beginning of this summer semester and introduce ourselves to potential new members. In addition to our stand, for example, the Formula student team High Octanes with one of their racing cars, Evolonic with their autonomous flying drone and many other groups such as the TechFak garden, the student council, … were on site.
A special feature of our appearance was the opportunity for our visitors to become active themselves. They were able to move our robots by hand over a small field they had brought with them and score a goal or two themselves. In addition, of course, there was also the opportunity to get in touch with our members and to find out more about our club life, the robots and our Robocupliga.
Despite the rather moderate weather, the university group presentation was attended by some students and we are now happy to welcome some new motivated faces to our association.
If you would like to join us, simply contact us at info@robotics-erlangen.de.
Joint Presentation of the University Groups of the Technical Faculty
On 04/19 and April 20th, 2023, all university groups of the technical faculty will present themselves together on Red Square and Robotics Erlangen will be there!
Would you like to get involved with a university group or get to know a group better? Then just stop by and talk to the local people.
RoboCup Crailsheim: Summary
Now that the RoboCup Crailsheim is coming to an end, we can give a summary of the weekend.
Our team was able to draw a lot of valuable conclusions from the tournament: why is it possible for us to forget to load the shot in a real tournament game? Shouldn’t something like this be activated automatically? Is our radio actually as robust as we thought? Why didn’t we pass in this or that game situation, although it would have made sense?
Many questions to which we can now throw many minutes of saved game material. But it’s not just us: The other teams were also able to gain valuable insights from the tournament and praised the RoboCup-like overall situation. Accordingly, the teams are all the more pleased to hear that both the city of Crailsheim and the Crailsheim company are planning to hold the tournament every year!
As a living location for robotics and automation, the Crailsheim location and the company Gerhard Schubert, which is inseparably rooted in robotics, only benefit from inspiring young talent from the region with the strengths of robotics and STEM subjects. As a university group, we are therefore very pleased to be able to do our part!
So we only have two things left to say: See you all at RoboCup Bordeaux – as well as RoboCup Crailsheim 2024!
RoboCup Crailsheim: ER-Force vs. TIGERs Mannheim
It came as it had to: ER-Force is in the final against TIGERs Mannheim!
Both teams are tense: As expected, TIGERs Mannheim was able to deliver a more robust performance over the course of the tournament, but ER-Force did better than its competitor against some opponents. An exciting game awaits! The fans obviously knew this too, so that shortly before the start of the game the ranks fill up again: More than 100 spectators can hardly wait when it’s time to say: Let’s play soccer!
Just a few seconds after the kick-off, the spectators can experience the performance of a top-class game: the ball is almost permanently in midfield, the players give their opponents little chance for an attack. If they do, the counterattacks are dangerous, but the teams are usually able to defuse the situation.
So the first half is very exciting and without major interruptions. Finally, TIGERs Mannheim manage to grab the ball and outwit our goalkeeper with a counterattack, which means that the first half is clearly 1-0. Overall, the game appears very balanced; many passing games occur in both halves of the game.
After the second half has started and the automatic ball placement has been deactivated, the game continues as smoothly as in the first half. However, TIGERs Mannheim manages to extend their lead with a second goal during the second half. Nevertheless, the ER-Force team represent a strong adversary. The game finally ends with a wonderful and well-deserved third goal by TIGERs Mannheim.
TIGERs Mannheim is the deserved winner of this tournament and receives its well-deserved trophy at a ceremony! This ends a wonderful tournament in which the teams were able to improve their game. Finally, there is only one thing left to say: See you all in Bordeaux!
RoboCup Crailsheim: ER-Force vs. LUHbots
After we were able to win all of the past games except that against our archenemy and good friend TIGERs Mannheim, we are now playing the game between place 2 (we) and place 3 LUHbots from Hanover.
The outcome of this game is crucial: if we can defend our second place, we’ll be in the starting eleven in the following game for the final. On the other hand, if we lose, we can only watch the game from the stands and LUHbots gets their chance. Accordingly, this game is exciting in every respect!
We were able to score a few goals right after the kick-off, so that by the end of the first half it was already 3-0 to ER-Force. After half-time, however, LUHbots were able to better defend their penalty area and the goal, making it increasingly difficult for us to score goals. Nevertheless, we were able to show our dominance as a long-established team and score another 4 goals, so that the game finally ended in our favor 7:0.
Overall, the game was beautiful to watch. It’s remarkable how much our friends from Hanover have attracted since the last RoboCup 2022. After all, LUHbots is a newly founded team that was only able to take part in a RoboCup! We can’t wait to play against this strong youth team again!
Nevertheless, with this victory and a swollen chest we are on our way to the ultimate game for the strongest team in Europe: ER-Force vs. TIGERs Mannheim at 5:00 p.m.