3.0RONov 22, 2021
RoboKit-MV: an Educational InitiativeAzer Babaev, Ilya Osokin, Ilya Ryakin et al.
In this paper, we present a robot model and code base for affordable education in the field of humanoid robotics. We give an overview of the software and hardware of a robot that won several competitions with the team RoboKit in 2019-2021, provide analysis of the contemporary market of education in robotics, and highlight the reasoning beyond certain design solutions.
5.3ROOct 15, 2021
Starkit: RoboCup Humanoid KidSize 2021 Worldwide Champion Team PaperEgor Davydenko, Ivan Khokhlov, Vladimir Litvinenko et al.
This article is devoted to the features that were under development between RoboCup 2019 Sydney and RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. These features include vision-related matters, such as detection and localization, mechanical and algorithmic novelties. Since the competition was held virtually, the simulation-specific features are also considered in the article. We give an overview of the approaches that were tried out along with the analysis of their preconditions, perspectives and the evaluation of their performance.