Lab Project Humanoid Robots

Humanoid robots enjoy increasing popularity as a research tool. One of the benchmark applications for humanoid robots is soccer.
The aim of this lab project is to develop new control software for the NimbRo KidSize 2007 robots, which won the RoboCup 2007 Humanoid soccer competitions. This includes components for infrastructure, for perception, and for behavior control.
Software development will be organized in a team and MS Robotics Studio will be used as development environment.

Requirements and Information

• Organizers: Dr. Sven Behnke and Jörg Stückler
• The lab project is restricted to 8 participants. 
• Regular meetings will be Tuesdays and Thursdays 6pm c.t. in room 106.00.007
• Programming experience is required.
• The participants will work together in groups of 2-3 students.
• In addition to the implementation of a software component, each group will need to 
• make a midterm and a final presentation and 
• write a project report.

Participants

• Martin Gloderer
• Thomas Mayer
• Eugen Mayer
• Florian Pommerening
• Tilman Thiry
• Philipp Vath
• Sven Wehner
• Richard Zahoransky

NimbRo KidSize 2007 robots: Rudi, Lothar, and Jürgen

 

The NimbRo KidSize 2007 robots have 20 joints. They are 60cm tall and have a total weight of 4kg. The robots are equipped with three wide-angle cameras and an attitude sensor. The fully autonomous robots are controlled by a tiny PC and communicate via WLAN.