FU-Fighters Team Description 2006

Abstract

– The FU-Fighters are a team of robots with small foot-print and low weight. – The robots use odometry to compute an approximation of their position on the field. – Vision is omnidirectional with a special mirror that provides a 360 degree view of the field. – The robots communicate with an off-the-field computer which fusions the data from all robots, broadcasting them their position and those of the opponents and the estimated position of the ball. – The computer vision tracks whole regions of the field, recognizes certain features and matches them to a model to compute the current position. – The robots are fast and, for their size, have a powerful electromagnetic kicking device.