23/07/2024
After a great closing Party at the RoboCup 2024 and a rather short
night of sleep, we attented the RoboCup Symposium. Besides presenting our poster on our light weight simulator for the RCLL, we also to talk to fellow RoboCuppers. But this also marks the end of this years RoboCup season. But as you know, after the RoboCup is before the RoboCup ;)
Further good news, we won the Open Challenge this year, making this again a perfect RoboCup season for us, winning the German Open, the RoboCup in Eindhoven and the Open Challenge - all the awards we aimed to get.
This year's Open Challenge presentation consisted of two parts. First an AR system, that helps the teams set up the game field. This should not only speed up the process but also prevent errors while placing the machines. Furthermore, the application also shows additional content for visitors of the Logistics League to make the games more engaging and interesting. The AR application is part of a master thesis done at the Advanced Mixed Reality Interfaces Lab TU Graz. Next, we showed new developments on our High-Level Simulation. We created a helm chart that allows to quickly set up the RCLL simulation in a Kubernetes cluster. This enable teams to simulate a lot of games. Unfortunately, we learned that not all our software components (refbox & simulator) are stable enough yet to run them 24/7.
But we will continue to work on it so that next year we finally can
have a simulation challenge in the RCLL to answer the old question of who has the best planning.