RoboCup Junior Gail Chapman Luella High School

RoboCup Junior RoboCup Junior is a project-oriented educational initiative that sponsors local, regional and international robotic events for young students up through age 19.

PURPOSE Purpose is to foster Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined.

RoboCup The ultimate goal of RoboCup is that by the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall play (and win!) a soccer game against the (human) world champions.

RoboCup Challenges RoboCupJunior offers several challenges, each emphasizing cooperative, problem- solving and task-achievement aspects. dance soccer rescue

Soccer Challenge 2-on-2 teams of autonomous mobile robots play games in a highly dynamic environment, tracking a special light-emitting ball in an enclosed field landmarked in shades of gray. RoboCup Junior Soccer Rules for 2007 RCJ soccer field building plans

Rescue Challenge 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. RoboCup 2007 Rescue Rules Make "victims" out of green tape, aluminized tape or aluminum foil and place them across the black line Rescue Field Building Plans

Dance Challenge The robot dance challenge encourages creativity, bringing one or more robots together with music, dressed in costume and moving in harmony. dance rules (2007)

HISTORY RoboCupJunior began in 1998, with a demonstration at RoboCup-98 in Paris. The following year, RoboCup-99 in Stockholm exhibited the first interactive RoboCupJunior workshops. At RCJ-2000 in Melbourne, over 100 children participated from 25 schools around Australia, as well as from Germany and the USA. RCJ-2001 was held in Seattle, USA, where 25 teams from four countries. RCJ-2002 was held in Fukuoka, Japan, where 59 teams from 12 countries participated. RCJ-2003 was held in Padova, Italy in July 2003, where 57 teams from 15 countries participated. RCJ-2004 was held in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2004, where 162 teams from 18 countries participated. RCJ-2005 was held in Osaka, Japan in July 2005, where 163 teams from 18 countries participated. RCJ-2006 was held in Bremen, Germany, in June 2006, where 240 teams from 22 countries participated.

2007 RoboCup Junior RCJ-2007 was held on July 1 through 6, 2007 in Atlanta, USA, on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Website for RoboCup 2007 / (photo gallery) 321 teams from 39 countries/regions participated in RoboCup 2007 Atlanta

RoboCup 2007 Highlight Movie 2005 Osaka (10minHighlight Movie 2005 Osaka (10min