RoboCupJunior offers several challenges, each emphasizing both cooperative and competitive aspects. For young students, RoboCupJunior provides an exciting introduction to the field of robotics, a new way to develop technical abilities through hands-on experience with electronics, hardware and software, and a highly motivating opportunity to learn about teamwork while sharing technology with friends. In contrast to the one-child-one-computer scenario typically seen today, RoboCupJunior provides a unique opportunity for participants with a variety of interests and strengths to work together as a team to achieve a common goal.

Rescue

Robots identify victims within re-created disaster scenarios, varying in complexity from line-following on a flat surface to negotiating paths through obstacles on uneven terrain.

Soccer

Teams of autonomous mobile robots play soccer in a highly dynamic environment that mimics a real soccer field.

2-on-2 teams of autonomous mobile robots play in a highly dynamic environment, tracking a special light-emitting ball in an enclosed, landmarked field.

Onstage

One or more robots come together with humans, dressed in costume and moving in creative, interactive and collaborative ways

See more at: https://junior.robocup.org/

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The competition

The competition of RoboCup@Home features three leagues and consists of a series of tests which the robots have to solve. The Domestic Standard Platform League focuses on household tasks while the Social Standard Platform League has special interest in the social aspects of human robot interaction, both removing the hardware constraint. In contrast, the The Open Platform League has no hardware restrictions whatsoever and offers the highest degree of freedom when conducting research. The conducted tests will change over the years to become more advanced and function as an overall quality measurement in desired areas. Suggestions for tests can be discussed on the email list. Performance measurement is based on a score derived from competition rules and evaluation by a jury.

Criteria of the tests are listed below. The tests should:

• include human machine interaction
• be socially relevant
• be application directed/oriented
• be scientifically challenging
• be easy to set up and low in costs
• be simple and have self-explaining rules
• be interesting to watch
• take a small amount of time

Suggestions for new tests or changes in existing tests should fulfill as many of these criteria as possible.

Suggestions can be mailed to the @Home email list (see contact information).

The Scenario

The ultimate scenario is the real world itself. To build up the required technologies gradually a basic home environment is provided as a general scenario. In the first years (we started in 2006) it will consist of a living room and a kitchen but soon it should also involve other areas of daily life, such as a garden/park area, a shop, a street or other public places.

Open Demonstrations

Two of the tests are open demonstrations where freely chosen abilities can be shown. In the “open challenge” teams can freely choose what is demonstrated. In this context, proposals for future tests can be presented to the league. According to the criteria of RoboCup@Home, a jury consisting of team leaders will decide on the score awarded. The “demo challenge” is not a completely open but scoped demonstration. Teams are encouraged to pick up problems within the scope of the demo challenge (elderly/health care in 2013) and to demonstrate new abilities and applications. The scope of the demo challenge changes every year.

Finals

RoboCup@Home finishes with the finals where the 5 teams with the highest scores can perform in the scenario that has been set up. The teams are rated by a jury consisting of roboticists and non roboticists, such as people from industry, from human-machine interaction, from industrial design, from the audience and the press. The ranking of the finals determines the winner. In the finals there is less focus on technical matters, since getting in the finals already means that the teams are very good on the technical level.

You can see rule book in GitHub repo.

See more at: https://athome.robocup.org/

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Approach

The league hosts annual competitions to 1) increase awareness of the challenges involved in deploying robots for emergency response applications such as urban search and rescue and bomb disposal, 2) provide objective performance evaluations of mobile robots operating in complex yet repeatable environments, and 3) promote collaboration between researchers. Robot teams demonstrate their capabilities in mobility, sensory perception, localization and mapping, mobile manipulation, practical operator interfaces, and assistive autonomous behaviors to improve remote operator performance and/or robot survivability while searching for simulated victims in a maze of terrains and challenges.

Competition Vision

When disaster happens, minimize risk to search and rescue personnel while increasing victim survival rates by fielding teams of collaborative mobile robots which enable human rescuers to quickly locate and extract victims.

Specific robotic capabilities encouraged in the competition include the following:

• Negotiate compromised and collapsed structures
• Locate victims and ascertain their conditions
• Produce practical sensor maps of the environment
• Establish communications with victims
• Deliver fluids, nourishment, medicines
• Place sensors to identify/monitor hazards
• Mark or identify best paths to victims
• Provide structural shoring for responders

These tasks are encouraged through challenges posed in the arena, specific mission tasks, and/or the performance metric. Demonstrations of other enabling robotic capabilities are always welcome.

Concept

The main objective of our league is to conduct challenging and fair competitions that inform teams about the tasks necessary to be effective for responders. We also need to measure progress in our robotic systems to highlight breakthrough capabilities that responders can understand and appreciate. Ten or more successful repetitions begin to indicate a reliable capability. A series of trials across a suite of complementary tests begin to evaluate the system.

The RoboCup Rescue competition is organized in a format that resembles Response Robot Exercises. These have been effective in communicating capabilities between robot manufacturers and responders. Each robot will be evaluated in standard and draft standard test methods during Preliminaries to demonstrate functionality, reliability, operator proficiency, and autonomous/assistive capabilities. The resulting scores will qualify them for a “deployment” into a more complicated scenario in the Finals. This will enable concurrent testing opportunities for more robots to capture statistically significant performance. It will also encourage testing in more complex or difficult settings, challenging robots beyond their comfort level to compile more points.

The Finals will remain a comprehensive search and identification of simulated victims in the overall maze for the best performing robots. Each qualified team is allowed one robot. The maze will consist of all the same test apparatuses and tasks. As always, the search scenario will be conducted from random start zone and performed in any order of tasks the team chooses.

Again we will instantiate a rigorous, standardized process for practicing and measuring league capabilities throughout the year, with competitions being the public demonstration of those capabilities and sharing of results. So we encourage you to build and practice these tests during your development. Then demonstrate your capabilities at competition time for scores.

This new structure will help our league communicate emerging capabilities to responders and allow them to guide such capabilities toward deployment. Local responders may come watch the competition and potentially demonstrate their own robots. This will familiarize them with the test methods and our emerging capabilities, making RoboCup Rescue a leading incubator for robots and test methods worldwide.

Rules

Here is the rule book in year 2023:

See more at: https://rrl.robocup.org/

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A Small Size robot soccer game takes place between two teams of six robots each. Each robot must conform to the dimensions as specified in the F180 rules: the robot must fit within a 180 mm diameter circle and must be no higher than 15 cm. The robots play soccer with an orange golf ball on a green carpeted field that is 9 m long by 6 m wide.

All objects on the field are tracked by a standardized vision system that processes the data provided by four cameras that are attached to a camera bar located 4 m above the playing surface. The vision system – called SSL-Vision – is an open-source project maintained by the league’s community.

Off-field computers for each team are used for the processing required for coordination and control of the robots. Communications is wireless and uses dedicated commercial radio transmitter/receiver units.

Rules

Here is the rules of RoboCup Soccer Small-Size League (2023).

See more at: https://ssl.robocup.org

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About the Humanoid League

In the Humanoid League, autonomous robots resembling humans in their physical structure and sensory capabilities compete in soccer matches. Unlike their counterparts in other leagues, these humanoid robots can’t rely on non-human-like range sensors to simplify the tasks of perception and world modeling. Besides the thrilling soccer matches, the league also hosts technical challenges. Research topics explored in the Humanoid League include dynamic walking and running, kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visually perceiving the ball, the field, and other players, self-localization, and team collaboration.

Competitions

The robots are categorized into three distinct size groups: KidSize (height ranging from 40-90cm), TeenSize (height between 80-140cm), and AdultSize (130-180cm in height). In the KidSize soccer division, teams of four highly agile and autonomous robots compete against each other. From 2010 onwards, the TeenSize soccer category features dual robot teams engaging in intense competition. In the AdultSize soccer league, a striker robot initially competes against a goalkeeper robot, and then they switch roles to compete again.

Rules

The Technical Committee, which includes members elected by the teams, is responsible for formulating the rules of the Humanoid League. Input and votes from the team leaders, collected during the annual meetings held at RoboCup events, significantly influence the evolution of the rules. The committee encourages suggestions, corrections, and feedback, which can be shared directly with the Technical Committee or via the league’s mailing list.

Here is the latest rules example in World RoboCup 2023

Reference: RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League

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