Northern Bites Blog http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog got fire? Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Welcome RoboCup fans http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/09/16/welcome-robocup-fans/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/09/16/welcome-robocup-fans/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:43:28 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=453 Just a quick update - we are in fact alive. Sorry for the lack of posts recently. The semester has started and the team is beginning to pick up steam again. We had a presence at the Student Activities Fair which presents first years with many of the extracurricular activities available at Bowdoin. We are planning on visiting some of the beginning to intermediate computer science courses to drum up some interest, as well as having an informational meeting this Sunday at 9 PM.

Many of the senior members of the Northern Bites are working on Honor’s Projects this semester. Areas being researched include bipedal walking, robots that learn to see better through human training, figuring out where on the field a robot is based on the position of his opponents, and distributed computing and its relation to machine learning.

We are working with a new version control system this year called git; we just had a seminar on its usage last night. We hope that it will help us in situations where internet access is spotty, such as at all the major RoboCup competitions we have attended thus far.

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Aibo results

Opponent Final score
Cerberus 6-0

TJ Ark 3-0

sharPKUngfu 9-0

UT Austin Villa 4-2

TecRams 10-0

GermanTeam 0-2 in penalty kicks

UT Austin Villa 3-1

See the whole Aibo League’s results here

The Nao results can be found here

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/09/16/official-robocup-2008-results/feed/ Hundreds of new (professional) pictures from RoboCup 2008 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/08/06/hundreds-of-new-professional-pictures-from-robocup-2008/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/08/06/hundreds-of-new-professional-pictures-from-robocup-2008/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:23:31 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=452 Goal

RoboCup 2008

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/08/06/hundreds-of-new-professional-pictures-from-robocup-2008/feed/ A robot cuter than the Aibo? http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/30/a-robot-cuter-than-the-aibo/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/30/a-robot-cuter-than-the-aibo/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:56:23 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=451 Excellent video. Shades of Wall-E in there.

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/30/a-robot-cuter-than-the-aibo/feed/ All videos up http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/24/semifinals-finals-teaser-up/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/24/semifinals-finals-teaser-up/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:18:34 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=450 Aibo:
Third place game
Semifinals
Quarterfinals

NBites vs Cerberus pool play
NBites vs TJArk pool play
NBites vs SharPKUngfu pool play
NBites vs UTAustin pool play
NBites vs WrightEagle Unsleashed! scrimmage
GermanTeam vs WrightEagle Unleashed!

Teaser

Nao:
NBites vs UTAustin
NBites vs Zadeat
NBites vs UTAustin

** edit **
I updated the links to refer through our public media repository

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/24/semifinals-finals-teaser-up/feed/ Video updates http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/22/video-updates/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/22/video-updates/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:10:27 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=449 The three of us going back to Bowdoin just made it in after 31 straight hours of travel. Now that I’m back on campus with reliable internet and access to iMovieHD I will do my best to get footage off the DV tapes and edited before I leave in a day or two. Cross your fingers.

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/22/video-updates/feed/ Northern Bites Places Third at RoboCup 2008 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/20/northern-bites-places-third-at-robocup-2008/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/20/northern-bites-places-third-at-robocup-2008/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:18:03 +0000 hwork http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=447 Beating the University of Texas at Austin, we have placed third at RoboCup in China. Four of us sped off the airport (carrying our robots) immediately after the game, while the rest were able to go on stage during the closing ceremony to receive our trophy. The ceremony was very impressive — complete with fireworks and an awesome trophy — outdoing Bremen in 2006 and dwarfing Atlanta in 2007.

This is the fifth trophy the nBites have won in two years, winning 3rd at German Open 2007, 1st at RoboCup 2007, 2nd at German Open 2008, 1st at US Open 2008, and 3rd at RoboCup 2008.

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/20/northern-bites-places-third-at-robocup-2008/feed/ NBites falls to GermanTeam 0-2 in penalty kicks http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/19/nbites-falls-to-germanteam-0-2-in-penalty-kicks/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/19/nbites-falls-to-germanteam-0-2-in-penalty-kicks/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:33 +0000 ndunn2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=446 Hi all, sorry for lack of updates here - I can only post here at the hotel.

Bowdoin Pride:
Bowdoin Pride

We beat SharPKUngfu 9-0, UTAustin 4-2, and TecRams 10-0, the last of which we played this morning in the quarterfinals.

We played our semifinal match today against the GermanTeam, and it went scoreless after two halves. This meant that the game went into penalty kicks. Unfortunately our goalie veered out of the box and couldn’t stop their incredibly powerful cannon shot. It was a heartbreaking loss, but members of the GermanTeam claimed it was the best Aibo match they’d ever witnessed.

We play either UTAustin or Wright Eagle for third place tomorrow at 11am (pm est).

]]> http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/19/nbites-falls-to-germanteam-0-2-in-penalty-kicks/feed/ Northern Bites rolls to 2-0 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/17/northern-bites-rolls-to-2-0-beats-tj-ark/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/17/northern-bites-rolls-to-2-0-beats-tj-ark/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:48:37 +0000 hwork http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=443 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/17/northern-bites-rolls-to-2-0-beats-tj-ark/feed/ RoboCup 2008 Podcast #2 http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/16/robocup-2008-podcast-2/ http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/2008/07/16/robocup-2008-podcast-2/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:58 +0000 Tucker Hermans http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog/?p=441 We bring you another podcast. First day of games, Naos play soccer (sort of). We had a larger crew talking tonight, so the levels aren’t wonderful. I may remaster it at a future point.

Whoops, first added this is a page and not a post…

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