HTWK Robots RoboCup 2024 Qualification Document

HTWK Robots

HTWK Leipzig (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences)

https://htwk.bot/


Abstract This is the RoboCup 2024 qualification document for HTWK Robots team from HTWK Leipzig (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences).

Team Information

Team Name HTWK Robots Team Leaders Rico Tilgner

Team Contact Email Address [email protected] Team Website URL https://htwk.bot/

Country of Origin Germany

University Affiliations of the Team

All team members are affiliated with HTWK Leipzig (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences).

HTWK Leipzig Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 132 04277 Leipzig, Germany

Team Members

– Rico Tilgner – Thomas Reinhardt – Stefan Seering – Tobias Kalbitz – Michael Wünsch – Florian Mewes – Tobias Jagla – Marvin Jenkel – Felix Loos – Eric Behrendt – Max Polter – Lea Kunz – David Schulte – Max Liebing – Johann Straube – Khanh Xuan Nguyen – Lennard Peters – Narek Mosisian – Freijdis Jurkat

Supervising Professors

  • Jens Wagner
  • Oliver Crönertz

Code Usage

Since 2021 we adopted the base image build process published by team Nao Devils.

We don't anticipate to use any code from other teams in 2024.

Own Contribution

We are reworking our team strategy and are developing an acoustic communication protocol to enable partial real-time collective reasoning. Working off of key perspectives from linguistics and harmony theory such as impoverishment (information encoding) and sequential co-articulation redundancy (message sequencing) we try to layer safe-guarding strategies against intra-protocol interference and general signal disruption. The overall goal is signal integration and dynamic world model building and targeted active and passive updating. We intend to use our acoustic communication protocol at RoboCup 2024.

Past History

Team HTWK Robots plans to compete in RoboCup 2024 and RoboCup German Open 2024.

RoboCup 2021 (1vs1)

Score Opponent
10.5 : 5 NomadZ
15 : 10 Berlin United
13.5 : 2 UT Austin Villa
12 : 9 SPQR Team
19.5 : 18 B-Human

GORE 2022 matches

Score Opponent
4 : 0 Nao Devils
5 : 2 RoboEireann
0 : 3 B-Human
6 : 0 SPQR Team
10 : 0 R-ZWEI KICKERS
10 : 0 R-ZWEI KICKERS
5 : 2 RoboEireann
0 : 4 B-Human

RoboCup 2022 matches

Score Opponent
3 : 0 rUNSWift
7 : 0 Bembelbots
7 : 0 SABANA Herons
0 : 8 B-Human
8 : 0 Bembelbots
4 : 0 Nao Devils
0 : 4 B-Human

RoboCup 2023 matches

Score Opponent
6 : 0 NomadZ
4 : 0 SPQR Team
7 : 0 Bembelbots
0 : 8 B-Human
3 : 0 rUNSWift
10 : 0 SPQR Team
4 : 0 HULKs
0 : 9 B-Human

GORE 2023 matches

Score Opponent
5 : 1 Nao Devils
0 : 7 B-Human
8 : 0 Naova
7 : 1 Bembelbots
7 : 0 Dutch Nao Team
5 : 0 Bembelbots
2 : 0 R-ZWEI KICKERS
0 : 7 B-Human

Impact

Team HTWK Robots is involved in several activities with the goal of connecting our university with local school graduates. Schoolchildren are invited to visit and get to know our robots. We support the Roberta initiative [1] for improved MINT education. Exhibition matches are held at events like Lange Nacht der Computerspiele [2] and modell-hobby-spiel [3] to wake interest for RoboCup in young visitors.

Other

In the past, we competed under the name Nao-Team HTWK in RoboCup competitions.

References

  1. https://www.roberta-home.de/
  2. https://computerspielenacht.htwk-leipzig.de/computerspielenacht-start
  3. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjsEJCroUQM/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D