"RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humaoid robot that can win against the human world champion team in soccer. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment."

The main objectives of this research team (GAR) in participating on RoboCup so activly, is to do research and development on mobile robotics in order to colaborate to the RoboCup ideal. Our main areas of research are autonomous vision, image processing, electronics development, control and software.

The Robot

Last updated on 26-May-2006, by Fernando Oliveira & Pedro Silva