The 12th RoboCup World Championship was held in Suzhou, China, from July 14th until July 20th.  The results of our team were the following:

First Round Robin

CAMBADA vs. CoPS Stuttgart	8-0
CAMBADA vs. NuBot	9-0
CAMBADA vs. EIGEN	6-2
CAMBADA vs. SCUT 100Steps	7-0
CAMBADA vs. TKU	11-0

Second Round Robin

CAMBADA vs. TechUnited	2-3
CAMBADA vs. SCUT 100Steps	9-0
CAMBADA vs. Hibikino-Musashi	2-0
CAMBADA vs. Strive	3-0

Third Round Robin

CAMBADA vs. Tribots	1-2
CAMBADA vs. MRL	4-0

Semi-Finals

CAMBADA vs. CoPS Stuttgart

4-3

Final

CAMBADA vs. TechUnited

7-1

Final standings

1st	CAMBADA (Portugal)
2nd	TechUnited (Netherlands)
3th	Tribots (Germany)

See the official results here

Qualification Materials for RoboCup2008:

• Team description paper

• Team Video

• List of scientific papers

  • Bernardo Cunha, José Azevedo, Nuno Lau, Luís Almeida (2007), "Obtaining the Inverse Distance Map from a Non-SVP Hyperbolic Catadioptric Robotic Vision System". RoboCup Symposium, Atlanta (USA) July 9-10, 2007.

  • José Luís Azevedo, Manuel Bernardo Cunha, Luís Almeida (2007), "Hierarchical Distributed Architectures for Autonomous Mobile Robots: a Case Study". ETFA2007- 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, pp. 973 - 980, Patras (Grece) September 25-28, 2007.

  • António J. R. Neves, Gustavo Corrente, Armando Pinho (2007), "An omnidirectional vision system for soccer robots". In Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4874 pp. 499-507, Springer, 2007.

  • Pedreiras, P., F. Teixeira, N. Ferreira, L. Almeida, A. Pinho, F. Santos (2006), "Enhancing the reactivity of the vision subsystem in autonomous mobile robots using real-time techniques", RoboCup Symposium: Papers and Team Description Papers, RoboCup-2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2006.

  • Santos, F., L. Almeida, P. Pedreiras, L. Seabra Lopes, T. Facchinetti (2004), "An Adaptive TDMA Protocol for Soft Real-Time Wireless Communication among, Mobile Autonomous Agents", Proc. WACERTS'2004, Int. Workshop on Architecture for Cooperative Embedded Real-Time Systems (in conjunction with RTSS 2004), Lisboa, Portugal.

• List of results

  • RoboCup World Championship 2007:
    ● Tournament: 5th place.
    ● Technical Challenge 1: 4th place.
    ● Technical Challenge 2: 4th place.

  • Portuguese Robotics Open 2007: 1st place.

  • Portuguese Robotics Open 2006: 3rd place.

  • Portuguese Robotics Open 2005: 4th place.

  • Portuguese Robotics Open 2004: 5th place

• Contributions to the Community

  • Most of the team members are also members of the Organizing Committee of the Portuguese Robotics Open 2008 (which will be held in Aveiro, 2-6 April 2008, http://robotica.ua.pt/robotica2008/).

  • Two team members are also members of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Portuguese Robotics Open since 2002.