Electric Sheep Team Description Paper Humanoid League Kid-Size 2019
This work addresses the need for accessible entry-level platforms in robotics competitions, but it is incremental as it builds on existing league standards without major breakthroughs.
The paper introduces the Electric Sheep team's low-cost humanoid robot platform for the RoboCup Humanoid Kid-Size league, detailing its hardware design and software framework for vision, walking, and gameplay.
In this paper we introduce the newly formed New Zealand based RoboCup Humanoid Kid-Size team, Electric Sheep. We describe our developed humanoid robot platform, particularly our unique take on the chassis, electronics and use of several motor types to create a low-cost entry platform. To support this hardware, we discuss our software framework, vision processing, walking and game-play strategy methodology. Lastly we give an overview of future research interests within the team and intentions of future contributions for the league and the goal of RoboCup.