RoboCupJunior Soccer

RoboCupJunior Soccer is an educational initiative focused on elementary, middle and high school students, as well as initial college students. In this, teams of 2 against 2 autonomous mobile robots play matches in a closed field of minifutbol, ​​looking for a ball and trying to send it to the goal that corresponds to them, or defending against the opposing offensive.

The robots built exclusively by the participants must be completely autonomous; besides watching them in game, they will be examined in their construction, technical design and programming, looking for the tournament champion to have the best balance between all these elements. Participants should be able to give the best of their programming, robotics, electronics and mechatronics skills, but they should also contribute to teamwork and share their knowledge with other participants, regardless of their age or the result in the competition. Everyone is expected to compete, learn, have fun and grow.

Within this competition category there are three sub-leagues:

• Lightweight Primary (without the right to participate in the RoboCupJunior International competition)
• Lightweight
• Open

Restrictions

RCJ Soccer teams must settle for at least 2 members and up to a maximum of 4.

The age is considered on July 1 of each year for the RoboCup World Cup, and therefore also for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.

Each contestant can only be enrolled in 1 unique team, sub-league and league in all RoboCupJunior.

Rules

The rules for the competition of RoboCupJunior Soccer 2018 are published on the international site of RoboCupJunior.

These rules can be consulted in http://rcj.robocup.org/soccer.html. Take into account that the international committees are in the process of reviewing the rules, so it is advisable that you check periodically to find out if there were any updates.

Equipment limits by institution

Each institution can register the following number of teams for each Junior sub-league:

• Maximum 1 team per sub-league in Rescue Line and Rescue Maze
• Maximum 2 teams per sub-league in all Soccer and OnStage sub-leagues
• The number of teams in Rescue Simulation (formerly CoSpace) will not be limited
• The institution that has obtained the first place in each sub-league of the last tournament (TMR2017) and has sent its participation report in RoboCup Nagoya obtains the right to register one more team in that same sub-league. You must register the additional equipment and its members, and before concluding the pre-registration send an email to regtmr@femexrobotica.org indicating the name of the team that wishes this right to be applied.

Sub-leagues

• Lightweight Primary: all team members must be between 11 and 14 years of age (inclusive). This implies having been born between 02 / Jul / 2003 and 01 / Jul / 2007. This sub-league is solely national and does not grant the right to participate in the competition of RoboCupJunior International.
• Lightweight: all team members must be between 12 and 19 years old (inclusive). This implies having been born between July 2, 1998 and July 1, 2006.
• Open: all team members must be between 12 and 19 years old (inclusive). This implies having been born between July 2, 1998 and July 1, 2006.

Responsible

Technical support:
Luis José López Lora
email: llopez@femexrobotica.org