UChile RoadRunners 2008 Team Description Paper

Abstract

Our robotics group has teams in three leagues: humanoid, SPL, and @home. Taking advantage of this, we want to contribute to the transfer of relevant developments between the different RoboCup leagues. This year, our developments for the humanoid league include: (i) the full design and construction of our new goalie robot (UCH H1), (ii) the design and construction of a new (hardware) controller to be used in our 3 robots, (iii) the construction of an innovative battery protection hardware, (iv) a new methodology for designing fall sequences that diminish the damage in the robot's joints, (v) the development of an automated referee for the league, which uses a completely autonomous service robot as referee, and (vi) the proposition of new methodologies to be used in the vision system of our robots (task oriented active vision and context-based perception).