Welcome

This is the official homepage of the University of Pennsylvania's (four-legged league) Robocup team.

What's Robocup?

Robocup is an international robotics tournament and symposium. Teams of researchers spanning the globe build and program robots that play soccer, which then compete on behalf of their creators for a Robocup world championship title.

Quarterfinal loss at Robocup 2005

Penn reached the quarterfinals in Osaka but was again defeated by Carnegie Mellon. Source code and team description paper available here:

UPenn05.tar.gz (2.1 MB)

UPenn05.pdf (1 MB)

Second place finish at 2005 US Open

The 2005 US Open ended in a second place finish for Penn in a near-repeat of last year's results. Penn lost 2-1 to Carnegie Mellon in the final.

Penn finishes fourth at Robocup 2004

Robocup 2004 was held June 27 through July 5 in Lisbon, Portugal. Penn finished fourth out of the 24 teams in the four-legged league.

You can download our source and team description paper here:

Source code: UPenn04.tar.gz (1.5 MB)

Team description paper: UPenn04.pdf (165 KB)

Penn gets second place at Robocup 2003

Robocup 2003 was held July 2 through 11 in Padua, Italy. Penn garnered a second-place finish out of the 24 teams in the tournament's four-legged league, narrowly losing 4-3 to the University of New South Wales (Australia) in the final match.

The team consisted of robotics researcher Dr. Daniel Lee and engineering undergraduates David Cohen, Yao Hua Ooi, and Paul Vernaza.

You can download the source code for our robots here: UPenn03.tar.gz. You will need Sony's OPEN-R SDK to compile the code. We also have implemented an interface to Matlab for our robots. You can download that code here: UPennMatlab.tar.gz.

In addition, a technical description of our software and routines is available here: UPenn03.pdf.

Tutorials

If you're interested in writing code for the AIBO, this is the place to start.

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