This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the qualification procedure for the competition to be held in Graz in July 2009. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots. It also covers the software used for p...

This paper describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo AdultSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the RoboCup qualification procedure for the competition held from the 27th of July to the 30th of July 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the ro...

This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the qualification procedure for the competition to be held in Istanbul in July 2011. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots. It also covers the software used f...

This paper provides a brief description of Robo-Erectus Senior (RESr) AdultSize soccer playing humanoid robot developed at Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre of Singapore Polytechnic. We are currently in the stage of building a new hardware for this year competition. The new robot, RESr Bv-MkI will be used as the platform for competing in RoboCup humanoid league, and for our ongoi...

In this paper, we give an overview of the competition formats and the schedules used in 25 European soccer competitions for the season 2008–2009. We discuss how competitions decide the league champion, qualification for European tournaments, and relegation. Following Griggs and Rosa (Bull. ICA 18:65–68, 1996), we examine the popularity of the so-called canonical schedule. We investigate the pre...

We summarise the results of RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League in 2016 (Leipzig), including the main competition and the evaluation round. The evaluation round held in Leipzig confirmed the strength of RoboCup-2015 champion (WrightEagle, i.e. WE2015) in the League, with only eventual finalists of 2016 competition capable of defeating WE2015. An extended, post-Leipzig, round-robin tournament wh...

OBJECTIVES To compare the safety policies and practices reported to be adopted during training and competition by community sports clubs in northern Sydney, Australia. METHODS This cross sectional study involved face to face interviews, using an 81 item extensively validated questionnaire, with representatives of 163 community netball, rugby league, rugby union, and soccer clubs (response rat...

As step towards the long-term goal of winning against the FIFA world champion, the RoboCup Federation added in 2002 a league for humanoid robots to its annual soccer competitions. Now, the young Humanoid League raised the bar again. After preliminary competitions, for the first time, soccer games with humanoid robots were played in 2005. This article describes the technology of the humanoid soc...

As the RoboCup Humanoid League moves from less demanding competitions to soccer games, the complexity of behavior control increases significantly. This calls for structured behavior engineering. In this paper, we describe the design of the behavior control software for the Humanoid League team NimbRo. The control software is based on a framework that supports a hierarchy of reactive behaviors. ...

Water distribution networks are one of the most important elements in the urban infrastructure system and require huge investment for construction. Optimal design of water systems is classified as a large combinatorial discrete non-linear optimization problem. The main concern associated with optimization of water distribution networks is related to the nonlinearity of discharge-head loss equat...