UQ RoboRoos: Preliminary Design of a Robot Soccer Team

The UQ RoboRoos have been developed to participate in the RoboCup robot soccer small size league. This paper describes the current level of implementation of the robots, including aspects of hardware design, as well as the software running on the robots and the controlling computer. Key features of the RoboRoos design include the agile and powerful mechanical frame, the robots’ navigational techniques and a coordinating planner system based on potential field methods.