A break in play throughout a Small Dimension League match.
Right this moment, 21 July, noticed the competitions draw to a detailed in an exciting finale. Within the third and ultimate of our round-up articles, we offer a flavour of the motion from this final day. Should you missed them, you could find our first two digests right here: 19 July | 20 July.
My first port of name this morning was the Customary Platform League, the place Dr Timothy Wiley and Tom Ellis from Group RedbackBots, RMIT College, Melbourne, Australia, demonstrated an thrilling development that’s distinctive to their group. They’ve developed an augmented actuality (AR) system with the purpose of enhancing the understanding and explainability of the on-field motion.
The RedbackBots travelling group for 2024 (L-to-R: Murray Owens, Sam Griffiths, Tom Ellis, Dr Timothy Wiley, Mark Discipline, Jasper Avice Demay). Photograph credit score: Dr Timothy Wiley.
Timothy, the educational chief of the group defined: “What our college students proposed on the finish of final 12 months’s competitors, to make a contribution to the league, was to develop an augmented actuality (AR) visualization of what the league calls the group communication monitor. It is a piece of software program that will get displayed on the TV screens to the viewers and the referee, and it exhibits you the place the robots suppose they’re, details about the sport, and the place the ball is. We got down to make an AR system of this as a result of we expect it’s so significantly better to view it overlaid on the sector. What the AR lets us do is challenge all of this data stay on the sector because the robots are shifting.”
The group has been demonstrating the system to the league on the occasion, with very constructive suggestions. The truth is, one of many groups discovered an error of their software program throughout a sport while attempting out the AR system. Tom mentioned that they’ve obtained a number of concepts and recommendations from the opposite groups for additional developments. This is likely one of the first (if not, the primary) AR system to be trialled throughout the competitors, and first time it has been used within the Customary Platform League. I used to be fortunate sufficient to get a demo from Tom and it undoubtedly added a brand new degree to the viewing expertise. Will probably be very fascinating to see how the system evolves.
Mark Discipline organising the MetaQuest3 to make use of the augmented actuality system. Photograph credit score: Dr Timothy Wiley.
From the principle soccer space I headed to the RoboCupJunior zone, the place Rui Baptista, an Govt Committee member, gave me a tour of the arenas and launched me to a number of the groups which have been utilizing machine studying fashions to help their robots. RoboCupJunior is a contest for varsity youngsters, and is cut up into three leagues: Soccer, Rescue and OnStage.
I first caught up with 4 groups from the Rescue league. Robots determine “victims” inside re-created catastrophe situations, various in complexity from line-following on a flat floor to negotiating paths by obstacles on uneven terrain. There are three completely different strands to the league: 1) Rescue Line, the place robots observe a black line which leads them to a sufferer, 2) Rescue Maze, the place robots want to research a maze and determine victims, 3) Rescue Simulation, which is a simulated model of the maze competitors.
Group Skollska Knijgia, participating within the Rescue Line, used a YOLO v8 neural community to detect victims within the evacuation zone. They skilled the community themselves with about 5000 photographs. Additionally competing within the Rescue Line occasion have been Group Overengeniering2. In addition they used YOLO v8 neural networks, on this case for 2 parts of their system. They used the primary mannequin to detect victims within the evacuation zone and to detect the partitions. Their second mannequin is utilized throughout line following, and permits the robotic to detect when the black line (used for almost all of the duty) modifications to a silver line, which signifies the doorway of the evacuation zone.
Left: Group Skollska Knijgia. Proper: Group Overengeniering2.
Group Tanorobo! have been participating within the maze competitors. In addition they used a machine studying mannequin for sufferer detection, coaching on 3000 photographs for every kind of sufferer (these are denoted by completely different letters within the maze). In addition they took photographs of partitions and obstacles, to keep away from mis-classification. Group New Aje have been participating within the simulation contest. They used a graphical person interface to coach their machine studying mannequin, and to debug their navigation algorithms. They’ve three completely different algorithms for navigation, with various computational value, which they’ll change between relying on the place (and complexity) within the maze during which they’re positioned.
Left: Group Tanorobo! Proper: Group New Aje.
I met two of the groups who had lately introduced within the OnStage occasion. Group Medic’s efficiency was primarily based on a medical state of affairs, with the group together with two machine studying parts. The primary being voice recognition, for communication with the “affected person” robots, and the second being picture recognition to categorise x-rays. Group Jam Session’s robotic reads in American signal language symbols and makes use of them to play a piano. They used the MediaPipe detection algorithm to seek out completely different factors on the hand, and random forest classifiers to find out which image was being displayed.
Left: Group Medic Bot Proper: Group Jam Session.
Subsequent cease was the humanoid league the place the ultimate match was in progress. The world was packed to the rafters with crowds wanting to see the motion.
Standing room solely to see the Grownup Dimension Humanoids.
The finals continued with the Center Dimension League, with the house group Tech United Eindhoven beating BigHeroX by a convincing 6-1 scoreline. You may watch the livestream of the ultimate day’s motion right here.
The grand finale featured the winners of the Center Dimension League (Tech United Eindhoven) in opposition to 5 RoboCup trustees. The people ran out 5-2 winners, their superior passing and motion an excessive amount of for Tech United.
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