OBJECTIVES

The FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2009, to be held at Incheon in Korea, 18-20 August 2009, is real life competitions in various categories that brings scientific exchange in the robotics community. The Organizing Committee and the Executive Committee of RoboWorld Cup are devoted to provide a common platform where scientists, academic researchers, robotic engineers and students meet to share their pioneering works and insights, to strive for unraveling challenges, and to propel the community to the next level of excitement, breakthrough and vision in the robotics community.

Competition Categories
MiroSot Middle League/ MiroSot Large League

Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
A match shall be played by two teams, each consisting of three robots, one of which can be the goalkeeper. Three human team members, a "manager", a "coach" and a "trainer" shall, only be allowed on the stage. One host computer per team, mainly dedicated to vision processing and other location identifying, shall be used. The size of each robot shall be limited to 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm The height of the antenna shall not be considered in deciding a robot's size.

.Robot: must be smaller than 7.5cm x 7.5cm x 7.5cm.
.Ball: An orange golf ball
.pitch: 400cm x 280cm for Large League and 220cm x 180cm for Middle League

RoboSot
A match shall be played by two teams, each consisting of one to three robots. One of the robots can be the goalkeeper. Three human team members, a "manager", a "coach" and a "trainer" shall only be allowed on stage. The robots can be fully or semi-autonomous. In the semi-autonomous case, a host computer can be used to process the vision information from the cameras on-board the robots.

Robot: 20cm x 20cm x No limit in height
Ball: A yellow with light green tennis ball
Pitch: 260cm x 220cm

SimuroSot
SimuroSot consists of a server which has the soccer game environments (playground, robots, score board, etc.) and two client programs with the game strategies. A 3D color graphic screen displays the match. Teams can make their own strategies and compete with each other without hardware. The 3D simulation platform for the game is available at FIRA web site.

AMiRESot
The AMiRESot game shall be played by two teams, each consisting of one robot player and up two human team members. The robot will be fully autonomous with on board vision system. The human team members will only be allowed to place their robot on the field, start their robot at the beginning of each round at the position indicated by the referee before each round, start their robot when indicated by the referee and remove the robot from the field at conclusion of the match.

Robot: AMiRE robot
Ball : A yellow tennis ball
Pitch: 130cm x 90cm

HuroCup-Huro
Sot/ Dash/ Marathon/ Obstacle Run/ Weight Lifting/ Basketball/ Penalty Kick/AndroSot
Humanoid Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
A humanoid robot shall have two legs. The game is played using humanoid robots. The maximum size of the robots is 150 cm. The maximum weight of the robot is 30 kg.

Robot: Biped Robot Remote Control or Auto Control
Pitch: 340~430 cm x 250~350cm