RoboCup Junior 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: All team members must be between 11 and 14 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2005 and 01 / Jul / 2009. 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 13 and 19 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2000 and 01 / Jul / 2007.
- Open: All team members must be between 13 and 19 years of age (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2000 and 01 / Jul / 2007.
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.
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 first place in each sub-league of the last tournament (TMR2019) and has submitted its participation report in RoboCup obtains the right to register one more team in that same sub-league. You must register the additional team and its members, and before concluding the pre-registration send an email to regtmr@femexrobotica.org indicating the name of the team that you want this right to apply.
Rules
The rules for the RoboCupJunior Soccer 2020 competition are published on the international RoboCupJunior website.
These rules can be consulted in https://junior.robocup.org/rcj-soccer-lightweight/ Y https://junior.robocup.org/rcj-soccer-open/. It must be taken into account that international committees are in the process of reviewing the rules, so it is advisable to check periodically to find out if there were any updates.
To clarify the rules and share knowledge in the Mexican Robotics Tournament, you can create an account at https://comunidad.femexrobotica.org/ and start a new conversation in the RoboCupJunior Soccer forum.
The RoboCupJunior Soccer competition will be held with the following aspects:
- virtual interview (prior to the day of registration on site)
- Verification of physical compliance of the robots and presentation with poster of the team (the day of registration on site)
- clashes against other teams in the Swiss system
- Finals (only for the highest teams in the leaderboard)
and technical challenges
Technical Committee
Luis José López Lora
e-mail: llopez@femexrobotica.org
Javier Enrique Delgado Moreno
e-mail: javier_687@outlook.com
Local committee
Abraham Aldaco
e-mail: abraham.aldaco@tec.mx
Adrián Rendón
e-mail: adrian.rendon@tec.mx
RoboCup Junior Soccer is an educational initiative focused on elementary, middle and high school students, as well as initial university students. Teams of 2 against 2 autonomous mobile robots play matches in a closed mini-soccer field, looking for a ball and trying to send it to the goal that corresponds to them, or defending against the opposite team.
Robots built exclusively by participants must be completely autonomous; In addition to observing them at play, they will be examined in their construction, technical design and programming, looking for the champion of the tournament to have the best balance between all these elements. Participants must be able to give their best programming, robotics, electronics and mechatronics skills, but they must also contribute to teamwork and share their knowledge with other participants, regardless of their age or the outcome of the competition. Everyone is expected to compete, learn, have fun and grow.
Within this category of competition there are three sub-leagues:
- Lightweight Primary: all team members must be between 11 and 14 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between July 2nd, 2005 and July 1st, 2009. This sub-league is only nationally and does NOT grant the right to participate in the RoboCupJunior International competition.
- Lightweight: all team members must be between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between July 2nd, 2000 and and July 1st, 2007.
- Open: all team members must be between 13 and 19 years of age (inclusive). This implies being born between July 2nd, 2000 and and July 1st, 2007.
Restrictions
RCJ Soccer teams must be formed with at least 2 members and up to a maximum of 4 members.
Age is considered as of July 1 of each year for the RoboCup World Cup, and therefore also for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.
Each contestant can only be registered in 1 single team, sub-league and league in all RoboCupJunior.
Teams limit per institution
Each institution can sign up the following number of teams per Junior sub-category:
- Maximum 1 team per sub-category in Rescue Line and Rescue Maze.
- Maximum 2 teams per sub-category in all Soccer and Onstage leagues.
- There is no team limitation for Rescue Simulation.
- The institution that obtained the first place in each sub-category in the last tournament (TMR2019) and sent its participation report in RoboCup 2019 Sydney (Australia) has the benefit to sign up an extra team in the same sub-category. It's necessary to include the additional team and its members in the pre-signup page and send an email to regtmr@femexrobotica.org specifying the name of the team that will use this benefit.
Rules
The rules for the RoboCupJunior Soccer 2020 competition are published on the international RoboCupJunior website.
These rules can be found at https://junior.robocup.org/rcj-soccer-lightweight/ and https://junior.robocup.org/rcj-soccer-open/. It must be taken into account that the international committees are in the process of reviewing the rules, so it is advisable to check periodically to find out if there were any updates.
To clarify the rules and share your knowledge in the Mexican Robotics Tournament, you can create an account at https://comunidad.femexrobotica.org/ and start a new conversation within the RoboCupJunior Soccer forum.
The RoboCupJunior Soccer competition will be held with the following aspects:
- virtual interview (prior to the day of registration on site)
- robots' physical compliance verification and presentation with poster of the team (during the day of registration on site)
- games against other teams using a Swiss system tournament
- finals (only for the highest teams in the leaderboard)
- and technical challenges.
Technical Committee
Luis José López Lora
e-mail: llopez@femexrobotica.org
Javier Enrique Delgado Moreno
e-mail: javier_687@outlook.com
Local committee
Abraham Aldaco
e-mail: abraham.aldaco@tec.mx
Adrián Rendón
e-mail: adrian.rendon@tec.mx