INTRODUCTION

The Robotics Lab is a place where the engineering students from ITAM can get involved with investigation projects focused on technology development in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, autonomous behaviors, agents’ cooperation and Robotics, among other activities.

Each project is developed by a team that proposes solutions based on the knowledge and experience they acquired by documental research and all along their careers. The solutions proposed are developed and tested in national and international robotics contests, where other universities around the world participate.

Robotic Lab research projects at this time are: RoboCup Small Size League and RoboCup AIBO League.

¿ What is Robocup?

RoboCup (Originally called as Robot World Cup Initiative) is an international research and education initiative. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented education.

For this purpose, RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a primary domain, and organizes RoboCup:(The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences). In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a software platform for research on the software aspects of RoboCup.

While soccer game is used as a standard problem where broad-range of efforts will be concentrated and integrated, competition is only a part of RoboCup activity.

Current activities of the RoboCup consists of:

• Technical Conferences
• RoboCup International Competitions and Conferences
• RoboCup Challenge Programs
• Education Programs
• Infrastructure Development

Nevertheless, RoboCup International Competitions and Conferences is the central pillar of our activity, where researchers can get together and evaluate research progress.

For more information:

 http://www.robocup.org

Laboratorio de Robótica
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Río Hondo # 1
Col. Tizapán San Ángel C.P. 01000
Tel. (55) 5628 4000 Ext. 3660