Student teams from across China have been showcasing their strategies and models in a football tournament at the upcoming World Humanoid Robots Games in Beijing.
To reduce ball loss, students not only need to position individual robots precisely, but also need to optimize the robots' on-the-spot strategies to better coordinate multiple robots.
"We've come up with many scenarios where the ball and the robots might be on the pitch. On this basis, we will make manual adjustments, changing their positions according to our ideas. Then, we will set up a complete model. With the model, robots will know where they should go in all kinds of situations," said Ning Zihan, a student from Dalian University of Technology.
Such a contest is a testament to participating teams' self-research and development abilities. It has been driving students to comprehensively improve their training levels and technical capabilities.
"This competition, as a platform to develop embodied AI, allows students to align with talent cultivation in future industries from their interests. Then, it will evolve into intellectual support for the development of embodied devices and machinery in the future," said Ma Guangyi, vice dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology.
Chinese university students explore cutting-edge models in robot football matches
