INNAAS sponsors robotic soccer team for Hefei RoboCup 2015

Darpa, a government agency known for innovative advances in technology, stated that “Robots must be compatible with human operators, environments and tools.” This means that Modern Robotics’ improvements ought to virtually challenge the Robots’ versatility and multi-faced capabilities.

INNAAS will join the International Competition RoboCup 2015-Hefei as the Official Sponsor of the Italian Team SPQR, set up by students attending DIAG, the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, at Sapienza University in Rome.

The Team will play in the Section RoboSoccer League - Standard Platform League (SPL)-, in which all Teams compete with identical Robots.

The Robots operate fully autonomously, i.e. there is no external control, neither by humans nor by computers. The current Standard Platform used is the humanoid NAO created by Aldebaràn Robotics.

A NAO Robot is an exceptional technological tool who can walk by himself, recognize colors’ texture, and inter-act with the outside objects feeling movements around him.

We remember that the RoboCup is an Officially Certified International “edutainment” event, because it utilizes NAO technology, and it means that the event incorporates extremely sophisticated tools useful to bridge the gap between entertainment tips and the educational field.

INNAAS shared a “collaboration of experience” with the SPQR Team because we acknowledge that a background work of Big Data Analysis is necessary in order to enable Robots to improve its competitive advantages and activate its sensors and internal insight cameras.

“We believe that Innovation must be reckoned as the biggest resource that we have. We need to implement and foster technological tools created to be part of the process.”

The Team is constantly testing the Robots’ capabilities trying to improve the soccer players’ individual performances on ground; furthermore, they analyze robotics quantitative measurements comparing different data from Robots’ background process, translating those data into “Valuable Information” through the utilization of an algorithmic system allowing Robots to take the best decisions possible.
The DIAG students tested the Robots’ technological benchmark making accurate and continuous experimentations on Robots, plus taking into account that their goal consists into improving quantitative and qualitative measurements results.

Furthermore, INNAAS’ Managing Director, Simone Di Somma, affirms that: “We believe that Innovation must be reckoned as the biggest resource that we have. We need to implement and foster technological tools created to be part of the process.”