CM-Trio-99

The robots used in this competition were generously provided by Sony [3]. The robots are the same as the commercial AIBO robots except for slight hardware changes and programming capabilities. These autonomous robots are about 30cm long and have 18 degrees of freedom. The neck pans ±90° allowing the robot to scan the field with its on board camera. Six uniquely colored landmarks are placed around the field (at the corners and center-line) to help the robots localize. Each team consists of three robots. Like our team last year, CMTrio-98 [5], we divided our team between two identical attackers and one goalie.

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