A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot and mobile robot that is used to play variants of football.

The main organised competitions are the annual RoboCup and FIRA (Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association) tournaments.

Leagues

The RoboCup contest currently has a number of football leagues:

Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)

• Small Size League

• Middle Size League

Simulation League

• 2D Soccer Simulation

• 3D Soccer Simulation

  Humanoid League

Additionally, there is a RoboCupJunior league for younger students.

qfix Soccer robot

The qfix football robot "Terminator" is an omnidrive robot that can be used for RoboCup Junior. It includes a kicker and a dribbler as well as a controller board with Atmel controller.

The robot can be programmed using the GNU GCC compiler.

Graupner RC-SOCCERBOT

The Graupner "RC-SOCCERBOT" is a mobile robot platform developed by qfix which can be used as a radio-controller toy playing soccer with ping-pong balls. Gaining more experience in robotics the user can also implement C++ programs on the robot.

References

External links

• Official Website For RoboCup Junior

• qFix

• Graupner Robotics

• Supplier of FIRA Robot Football/Robot Soccer solutions