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RoboCup US Open 2008

• May 24: Team setup, closed to the public
• May 25-26: Round robin competions
• May 27: Finals

• Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh

Point of Contact

• Steve Kearney: email: stevekearney1@gmail.com phone: 719-360-3848

RoboCup US Open General Organizers

• Co-Chair: Prof. Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
• Co-Chair: Prof. Tucker Balch, Georgia Tech
• Operations: Steve Kearney
• Operations: April Foster, Carnegie Mellon University
• Field Construction: Joeseph Porco, Jeff Flynn

League Organizers

• AIBO: Sonia Chernova
• Nanogram Robot Soccer: Craig McGray, NIST
• Nao: Michael Novitzky, Georgia Tech
• Small Size Robot Soccer: Stefan Zickler, Carnegie Mellon University

Registered Teams

• AIBO:
  • Northern Bites - Bowdoin College
  • Metrobots - Brooklyn College
  • Brown # - Brown University
  • CMDash'08 - Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Dept.
  • Austin Villa - University of Texas at Austin
• Nanogram
  • Magic & Voodoo - Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering Dept.
  • USNA RoboCup - US Naval Academy
• Nao
  • Northern Bites - Bowdoin College
  • GTCMUnited'08 - Georgia Institute of Technology/Carnegie Mellon University
  • Austin Villa - University of Texas at Austin
• Small-Size
  • CMDragons08 - Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Dept
  • RFC Cambridge - MIT/Harvard

Schedule

Saturday May 24 - SETUP DAY -
There are no real demos or games. Instead we will have videos running all day long and
the public can see what we are doing. We are planning also on having
practice games in the afternoon, but we will not schedule them, we will
just have them as teams get ready setting up.

Sunday and Monday May 25, 26 - GAMES/DEMOS - both days with the same schedule
We will have demos and games throughout the day:

10:30 - AIBO game
11:00 - Small-size demo/game
11:30 - AIBO game
12:00 - Nano demo
12:30 - AIBO game
1:00 - Small-size demo/game
1:30 - Humanoid NAO demo
2:00 - Nano demo
2:30 - AIBO game
3:00 - Small-size demo/game
3:30 - Humanoid NAO demo
4:00 - Nano demo
4:30 - AIBO game

Tuesday May 27 - FINALS

10:30 - 3rd - 4th place AIBO game
11:00 - Small-size final game
11:30 - Last Humanoid NAO demo or/and Nano demo
12:00 - Final 1st-2nd place AIBO game

Schedule by League:

RoboCup USOpen

AIBO Robot League

Saturday, May 24th - SET UP day

Sunday, May 25th - Round Robin Games:

10:30am - CMDash'08 (Carnegie Mellon) vs Metrobots (Brooklyn College)
11:30am - Austin Villa (UT Austin) vs Brown # (Brown University)
12:30pm - Northern Bites (Bowdoin College) vs Metrobots (Brooklyn College)
2:30pm - Brown # (Brown University) vs CMDash'08 (Carnegie Mellon)
4:30pm - Northern Bites (Bowdoin College) vs Austin Villa (UT Austin)

Monday, May 26th - Round Robin Games:

10:30am - Metrobots (Brooklyn College) vs Brown # (Brown University)
11:30am - CMDash'08 (Carnegie Mellon) vs Austin Villa (UT Austin)
12:30pm - Brown # (Brown University) vs Northern Bites (Bowdoin College)
2:30pm - Austin Villa (UT Austin) vs Metrobots (Brooklyn College)
4:30pm - Northern Bites (Bowdoin College) vs CMDash'08 (Carnegie Mellon)

Tuesday, May 27th - Final Games:

10:30am - 3rd - 4th place game
12:00pm - Final 1st-2nd place game
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RoboCup USOpen 2008
Small-Size Robot League

Teams:
CMDragons'08 (Carnegie Mellon)
RFC Cambridge (MIT/Harvard)

Saturday, May 24th - SET UP day

Sunday, May 25th - Practice Games:
Start times: 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm

Monday, May 26th - Practice Games:
Start times: 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm

Tuesday, May 27th - Final Game - 11:00am
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RoboCup USOpen 2008
Nanogram Robot Demonstrations

Teams:
Magic&Voodoo (Carnegie Mellon)
UNSA RoboCup (US Naval Academy)

Saturday, May 24th - SET UP day

Sunday, May 25th - Demonstrations:
Start times: 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 4:00pm

Monday, May 26th - Demonstrations:
Start times: 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 4:00pm

Tuesday, May 27th - Final Demonstration: 11:30am
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RoboCup USOpen 2008
NAO Humanoid Robot Demonstrations

Teams:
Northern Bites (Bowdoin College)
GTCMUnited'08 (Georgia Institute of Technology & Carnegie Mellon)
Austin Villa (University of Texas, Austin)

Saturday, May 24th - SET UP day

Sunday, May 25th - Demonstrations:
Start times: 1:30pm 3:30pm

Monday, May 26th - Demonstrations:
Start times: 1:30pm 3:30pm

Tuesday, May 27th - Final Demonstration: 11:30am
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Registration Fees (Registration is still Open):

We are still have room for additional teams.

• Robot Team: $375 (registration form)
• Faculty member: $250 (registration form)
• Student: $100 (registration form)

Example total fee calculation: Robot team with one faculty member and two students = $375 + $275 + $100 + $100 = $850.

We do not expect to have funds available for travel support.

Lodging

Information on local hotels is here.

Transportation

Participants should plan to rent a car or use local public transportation to and from the venue.