The Orient the team by Toyo University for RoboCup MSL

The Japanese version is here.
Last update on 2008-01-21

RoboCup Japan Open 2008 (May 2008, Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan)

• Official Home Page for Japan Open 2008
• Info for participants (from RoboCup Japan national committee
• MSL (Middle Size League)
• Info on Japan Open 2008 MSL (provided by Maeda Lab., Fukui Univ.)
• General Info. on MSL (provided by Prof. Y. Takahashi at Asada Lab., Osaka Univ.)
• Official Rule for RoboCup 2008(2007-11-09 version, PDF, 677KB)
  
• Humanoid League
• Info. on Humanoid League of RoboCup Japan Open 2008 (provided by Dr. Ogino, at Asada Lab., Osaka Univ.)
• Tentative rule for RoboCup 2008 (2007-11-15, 336KB)

Info on RoboCup 2007 Atlanta

• General Info
• Official Web site (in English)
• Middle Size League (offered by Prof. Takahashi at Osaka Univ. (Japan))
• Rules and Regulations for Atlanta 2007 (2007-01-31, PDF, 671KB)
• Qualification materials
• List of publications
• Team Description Paper (TDP) (PDF, 156KB)
• Results and Awards in the last 3 years
• RoboCup 2006: Best 12 (RR2) in the competition, and 3rd place in the Technical Challenge
• RoboCup 2005: Best 8 (QF) in the competition.
• RoboCup 2004: unattended
• Video
• Dribble and Kick(6.34MB)
• Pass and Kick(5.06MB)
• Dribble(3.95MB)
• Contributions to the RoboCup MSL community
• participating since the first competition in 1997 Nagoya
• technical committee in 1997 Nagoya and 1998 Paris
• organizing committee in 2006 Bremen
• domestic committee for Japan Open
• Declaration of single/mixed team:
• Mixed team with Osaka Trackies (Osaka Univ.)

Info on RoboCup 2006 Bremen

• General Info
• Official Web site (in English)
• Middle Size League(offered by Prof. Takahashi at Osaka Univ. (Japan))
• Qualification materials
• Team Description Paper (TDP): final version (PDF format)
• Video:
  coordination by 2 robots (mpg, 2.6MB),
  coordination by 3 robots (mpg, 1.6MB),
  loop kick (mpg, 760KB)
• List of publications
• Report of our team (in Japanese)

• General information from RoboCup official site

Foreword

Our team name is the English translation of the name of our university (Toyo University).

Team members

members (as of 2006) at Bremen, Germany

Prof. Akihiro MATSUMOTO (advisor) Toshinari AKIMOTO (team leader) Hideaki SHIMIZU Kanamaoto KANAMOTO Hiroki MAEDA Yuji F. TAKAHASHI Hiroaki NISHIGORI Takashi OGINO Alessandro MORO (guest member from Italy)

Robots

#11 Genbu and #14 Byakko (Jul. 2005) Omnidirectional mobile mechanism with 4 motors, and omnidirectional vision (IEEE1394). Windwos OS on note PC, and external I/O through USB. Simple kicking mechanism for lateral movement of the ball.	#10 Suzaku and #12 Seiryu (Jul. 2005) Omnidirectional mobile mechanism with 4 motors, and omnidirectional vision (IEEE1394). Windwos OS on note PC, and external I/O through USB. Simple kicking plate for passing and shooting of the ball.	#1 Rook omnidirectional mobile mechanism with 3 motors, and omnidirectional vision. Goalie since UTTORI United team. The most reliable player in this team.	#2 Mamiya omnidirectional mobile mechanism with 4 motors, and omnidirectional vision. Much smaller and lighter than before.

Note:

• Please pronouce "Genbu" as 'guenboux'.
  
• "Genbu", "Byakko", "Suzaku", and "Seiryu" are the names of ancient animal gods, who represent the directions and colors (based on chinese astrology).

name	meaning	color	direction
Genbu	serpant with turtle	black	north
Byakko	white tiger	white	west
Suzaku	chinese phoenix	rose	south
Seiryu	blue dragon	blue	east

Info on RoboCup 2005 Osaka

• General Info
• Official Web site (in English)
• Middle Size League(offered by Prof. Sorrenti (Italy)
• Middle Size League(offered by Prof. Takahashi at Osaka Univ. (Japan))
• Qualification materials
• Team Description Paper (TDP): qualification version -> final version (PDF format)
• Video (TV) (MPEG1, 9.9MB)
• List of publications

General information on RoboCup

• RoboCup Official homepage

• RoboCup Japanese Natioal Committee (written in Japanese)

• RoboCup 2004 Lisbon (Portugal)

• RoboCup 2004 RoboCupSoccer Middle Size League

• RoboCup Japan Open 2004 Osaka (written in Japanese)

• RoboCup Japan Open 2003 Niigata (written in Japanese)

• RoboCup 2003 Padova (Italy)

• RoboCup 2003 Middle Size League

• RoboCup Japan Open 2003 at Niigata (May 1 - 5) (results) (written in Japanese).

• The homepage of RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan has been changed from www.robocup2002.org to www.robocup.or.jp/fukuoka/ .