Rob\^oCIn Small Size League Extended Team Description Paper for RoboCup 2023

TL;DR

This paper details RobIn's recent advancements in software, hardware, and AI for RoboCup SSL, highlighting improvements aimed at defending their 2022 title and sharing academic research contributions.

Contribution

The paper introduces new architecture, software refactoring, and hardware integration strategies developed by RobIn for RoboCup 2023 SSL competition.

Findings

Successful migration to Unification architecture

Published two high-impact SSL research articles

Enhanced mechanical and vision systems for competition

Abstract

Rob\^oCIn has participated in RoboCup Small Size League since 2019, won its first world title in 2022 (Division B), and is currently a three-times Latin-American champion. This paper presents our improvements to defend the Small Size League (SSL) division B title in RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France. This paper aims to share some of the academic research that our team developed over the past year. Our team has successfully published 2 articles related to SSL at two high-impact conferences: the 25th RoboCup International Symposium and the 19th IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS 2022). Over the last year, we have been continuously migrating from our past codebase to Unification. We will describe the new architecture implemented and some points of software and AI refactoring. In addition, we discuss the process of integrating machined components into the mechanical system, our development for participating in the vision blackout challenge last year and what we are preparing for this year.