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 The
1999 FIRA Cup Brazil was held at the Colegio Notre Dame, Campinas,
Brazil, from 4 to 8 August 1999. This was the 4th edition of
this annual scientific and technological event, where researchers
from all over the world get together to exchange their experiences
on building teams of intelligent cooperative robots, to demonstrate
their technical achievements, and to have a week of fun watching
exciting robot soccer games.
The event was held at the gymnasium of Campinas’ most
traditional school, Colegio Notre Dame. Fifteen teams representing
six countries from four continents, selected through regional
robot soccer competitions, participated in two categories: NaroSot
and MiroSot. A scientific workshop was held on the evening of
August 6th for the exchange and discussion of the scientific
issues behind robot soccer and the applications derived from
it.
Period: August 4 (Wed.) ~ 8 (Sun.), 1999
Venues: Colegio Notre Dame School, Campinas,
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Competition Categories: MiroSot, NaroSot,
RoboSot, S-KheperaSot
FIRA’99 was attended by an estimated 3,000 people, including
professionals from all areas of engineering and computer science,
university professors, and graduate, undergraduate, and high
school students.
FIRA’99 was proudly sponsored by Colegio Notre Dame,
Sun Microsystems, 3M, and Excel-sior, and supported by the
Brazilian Society for Automatics. The event was organized
by scientists from the following Brazilian institutions: Informatics
Technology Center, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University of the Rio
Grande do Sul, University of Brasilia, Pontifical Catholic
University of the Rio Grande do Sul, and Federal University
of Santa Catarina.
Participating Teams:
15 teams from 7 countries (Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong
Kong, Singapore, and etc.)
Four regional championships - South America, North America,
Europe and Asia-Pacific – were held prior to the Robot
World Cup to select the teams for the competitions in Brazil.
Only the teams, which qualify through the FIRA regional championships,
could proceed to participate in the 1999 FIRA Cup Brazil.
Through the regional championships, 15 teams were selected for
MiroSot category and 6 each for the NaroSot, RoboSot and S-KheperaSot
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| Schedules
of FIRA Regional Championships |
| Schedule |
Title |
Venues |
Results of MiroSot |
| 3. 24-28 |
FIRA’99 South America Championship
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Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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1. MINElroSOT, Brazil
2. Bravo, Brazil
3. Carrossel Caipira, Brazil |
| 5. 25-27 |
FIRA’99 Europe Championship
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Univ. of Dortmund
Germany
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1. Austro, Austria
2. RVB 99, Germany
3. IHRT, Austria |
| 5. 28-30 |
FIRA Robot World Cup – Korea League’99
<FIRA’99 Asia-Pacific Championship>
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Daejeon, Korea |
| [Korea Champion] |
| MiroSot |
NaroSot |
1. RobotIs
2. SIOR
3. SOTY IV
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1. Y2K2
2. Olympus |
[Non-Korean Champion]
1. MacROSOT (Singapore)
2. New NEU (China) |
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| The
results of FIRA Regional Championships’99 |
A. MiroSot
- 15 teams
1. North American Region - 3 teams
2. South American Region - 3 teams
3. Europe-Africa Region - 3 teams
4. Asia-Pacific Region - 6 teams
B. NaroSot - 6 teams
C. RoboSot - 6 teams
D. S-KheperaSot - 6 teams
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[MiroSot]
1. RobotIS (RobotIS Co., Ltd. Korea)
2. SIOR (SKKU, Korea)
3. SOTY IV (KAIST, Korea)
4. MacROSOT (Singapore)
5. New NEU (China)
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[NaroSot]
1. RobotIS (RobotIS Co., Ltd. Korea)
2. Y2K2 (KAIST)
3. Olympus (KAIST)
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[Benchmark]
1. New NEU (China)
2. RobotIS (RobotIS Co., Ltd. Korea)
3. SIOR (SKKU, Korea)
4. SOTY IV (KAIST, Korea)
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This
year, for the first time, FIRA held a benchmark competition
in the aim
: to set rigorous scientific standard for research into robot
soccer,
: to encourage teams to work on the same problems to allow comparison
: to collect and publish data on robot control and ball control
: to enable scientific analysis of the performance of teams
worldwide
: to enable any particular team to gauge its performance against
these standards
: to provide a simple baseline from which new scientific benchmarks
can be defined
: to be fun
The benchmarks were prepared by Jeffery Johnson (Open University,
U.K.), Peplluis de la Rosa Evista (University of Girona, Spain),
and Jong-Hwan Kim (KAIST, Korea), Dr. Vitor Romano (Brazil)
was responsible for coordinating the benchmark competition.
The three benchmarks run this year were: |
- Benchmark1: Ball striking: To control a single robot
to move from a given initial position to strike a stationary
ball. This benchmark runs three times, each time with
a different initial position. The robot has 1 minute to
complete the task.
- Benchmark2: Goal scoring: To control a robot to move
from a given initial position to strike a stationary ball
and score a goal. This benchmark also runs three times,
each time with a different initial position. The robot
has 1 minute to complete the task.
- Benchmark3: Passing between players and shooting: To
control two robots staring at given initial positions
such that Robot 1 strikes the ball once, and Robot 2 strikes
the moving ball once to make the ball pass over the goal
line. This benchmark runs twice, each time with a different
initial position. The robots have unlimited time to complete
the task. |
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